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gulden.

golden, made of gold

6 characters2 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈɣʏl.dən/
  1. golden, made of gold

    not-comparable
  2. precious, excellent, priceless

    figuratively · not-comparable
  3. guilded, plated with gold or coated with something resembling gold

    not-comparable
Where this word comes from

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).

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

    masculine
  2. the Dutch East Indies guilder, the currency of colonial Indonesia prior to its 1945 independence

    historical · masculine
  3. the Netherlands Antillean guilder (now the Caribbean guilder), the national currency circulated in the former Netherlands Antilles (now used in the Caribbean Netherlands).

    masculine
  4. name of several historical gold or silver coins

    masculine
  5. the Surinamese dollar

    Suriname · colloquial · informal · masculine
Where this word comes from

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).

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