gulden

From Middle English, from Middle Dutch gulden (florijn) (“golden (florin)”).

gulden (plural guldens or gulden)

1. (historical) An old currency of the Netherlands (and its former overseas territory the Netherlands Antilles or the Dutch East Indies).
   • 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter II, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth‎^[1]:

     The wheel spun and stopped at 13. I had lost! With a feeling like a sick qualm, as though I would like to make my way out of the crowd and go home, I staked another fifty gulden—this time on the red.

• guilder

• guilder

• “gulden” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

• ledung, lunged, ungeld

• gl. (noun, abbreviation)

From Middle Dutch guldijn, guldin, gulden, from Old Dutch *guldīn, from Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz. Equivalent to goud +‎ -en, replaced in modern Dutch with gouden in most contexts (see there for more).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣʏl.dən/

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• Hyphenation: gul‧den
• Rhymes: -ʏldən

gulden (not comparable)

1. golden, made of gold

   Synonym: gouden

2. (figurative) precious, excellent, priceless
3. guilded, plated with gold or coated with something resembling gold

   Synonym: verguld

gulden m (plural guldens, diminutive guldentje n)

1. the guilder (or florin, abbreviated fl.), the Dutch national currency before the introduction of the Euro in 2002

   Synonyms: florijn, piek, zoof

2. (historical) the Dutch East Indies guilder, the currency of colonial Indonesia prior to its 1945 independence
3. the Netherlands Antillean guilder (now the Caribbean guilder), the national currency circulated in the former Netherlands Antilles (now used in the Caribbean Netherlands).
4. name of several historical gold or silver coins
5. (Suriname, informal, colloquial) the Surinamese dollar

• ƒ, fl

• daalder
• stuiver

• Berbice Creole Dutch: golu
• → Lokono: gulden
• → Aukan: kolu
• → Papiamentu: heldu, eldu, gilden
• → Pidgin Delaware: gull
• → Saramaccan: kölu
• → Sranan Tongo: golu
  • → Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin: kolu

gulden

1. alternative form of gilden

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡul.den/, [ˈɡuɫ.den]

gulden

1. plural preterite subjunctive of ġieldan

Borrowed from German Gulden, from Middle High German guldīn, gulden.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡul.dɛn/

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• Rhymes: -uldɛn
• Syllabification: gul‧den

gulden m animal

1. (historical) golden guilder (coin)
   • 1890, Bolesław Prus, chapter 2, in David Welsh, transl., Lalka, volume 1:

     Wchodzili tam obaj ze służącym, zapalali parę płomyków gazu i, podczas gdy służący zamiatał podłogę, pan Ignacy odczytywał przez binokle ze swego notatnika rozkład zajęć na dzień dzisiejszy.
      — Oddać w banku 800 rubli, aha... Do Lublina wysłać trzy albumy, tuzin portmonetek... Właśnie!... Do Wiednia przekaz na 1.200 guldenów... Z kolei odebrać transport... Zmonitować rymarza za nieodesłanie walizek... Bagatela!... Napisać list do Stasia... Bagatela...

     He and the servant went in, lit a few little gas-jets and, while the servant was sweeping the floor, Ignacy perused his timetable for the day through his eye-glasses:
     ‘Put 800 roubles into the bank, hm ... Three albums and a dozen wallets to be dispatched in Lublin ... That's it! An order to Vienna for 1,200 guldens ... A mere nothing, to be sure! Write to Staś ... Oh, a mere nothing ...’

2. (historical) gulden (former unit of currency of Austria-Hungary)
3. (historical) guilder, gulden (former unit of currency of the Netherlands)
4. (historical) gulden (former unit of currency of the Free City of Danzig)
5. (historical) guilder (former unit of currency of Suriname)

• gulden in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gulden in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French gulden.

gulden m (plural guldeni)

1. gulden, guilder

gulden

1. definite plural of guld