gulden
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English, from Middle Dutch gulden (florijn) (“golden (florin)”).
Noun edit
gulden (plural guldens or gulden)
- (historical) An old currency of the Netherlands (and its overseas territory the Netherlands Antilles).
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References edit
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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- (noun): gl. (abbreviation)
Etymology edit
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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Adjective edit
gulden (not comparable)
- golden, made of gold
- Synonym: gouden
- (figurative) precious, excellent, priceless
- guilded, plated with gold or coated with something resembling gold
- Synonym: verguld
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| Inflection of gulden | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | gulden | |||
| inflected | gulden | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | ||||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | gulden | ||
| n. sing. | gulden | |||
| plural | gulden | |||
| definite | gulden | |||
| partitive | ||||
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Noun edit
gulden m (plural guldens, diminutive guldentje n)
- The guilder (or florin, abbreviated fl.), the Dutch national currency before the introduction of the Euro in 2002.
- The Netherlands Indian gulden, the currency of colonial Indonesia prior to its 1945 independence
- The Netherlands Antillean guilder, the national currency formerly used in the former Netherlands Antilles.
- Name of several historical gold or silver coins.
- (Suriname, informal, colloquial) The Surinamese dollar
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Middle English edit
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gulden
- Alternative form of gilden
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Gulden, from Middle High German guldīn, gulden.
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Noun edit
gulden m animal
- (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 ...’
- 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:
- (historical) gulden (former unit of currency of Austria-Hungary)
- (historical) guilder, gulden (former unit of currency of the Netherlands)
- (historical) gulden (former unit of currency of the Free City of Danzig)
- (historical) guilder (former unit of currency of Suriname)
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Declension of gulden
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adjective
noun
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Romanian edit
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Noun edit
gulden m (plural guldeni)
Declension edit
Declension of gulden
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) gulden | guldenul | (niște) guldeni | guldenii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) gulden | guldenului | (unor) guldeni | guldenilor |
| vocative | guldenule | guldenilor | ||
Swedish edit
Noun edit
gulden