Who would gild a lily?
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Gild
//ɡɪld//
Synonyms for "gild" (126 found)
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Closest matches (26)
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Related words (63)
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2 entriesderived
12 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
68 translations across 40 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- χρυσόω verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Arabic
1 entries- ذَهَّبَ verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Breton
1 entries- aourajiñ verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Bulgarian
2 entries- позлатявам verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
- украсявам verb (to adorn)
Catalan
1 entries- daurar verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Cornish
1 entries- owra verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Czech
2 entries- pozlatit verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
- zlatit verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Danish
1 entries- forgylde verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Dutch
3 entries- opsmukken verb (to adorn)
- verfraaien verb (to adorn)
- vergulden verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Esperanto
1 entries- orumi verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Finnish
1 entries- kullata verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
French
1 entries- dorer verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Galician
1 entries- dourar verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Georgian
4 entries- გალამაზება verb (to adorn)
- მოვარაყება verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
- მოოქროვება verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
- მორთვა verb (to adorn)
German
2 entries- schmücken verb (to adorn)
- vergolden verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Hungarian
1 entries- bearanyoz verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Ido
1 entries- orizar verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Interlingua
1 entries- aurar verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Irish
1 entries- óraigh verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Italian
4 entries- abbellire verb (to adorn)
- adornare verb (to adorn)
- dorare verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
- indorare verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Khmer
2 entries- បិទមាស verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
- ស្រោបមាស verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Latin
3 entries- aurō verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
- deaurō verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
- inaurō verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Macedonian
1 entries- позлати verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Manx
1 entries- airhey verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Occitan
1 entries- daurar verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- آلتونلمق verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
- یالدزلامق verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Polish
1 entries- pozłacać verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Portuguese
1 entries- dourar verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Quechua
1 entries- qurichiy verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Romanian
1 entries- auri verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Russian
4 entries- золоти́ть verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
- позолоти́ть verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
- укра́сить verb (to adorn)
- украша́ть verb (to adorn)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- òr verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
- òraich verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pozlatiti verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
- zlatiti verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Spanish
2 entries- dorar verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
- dorar verb (to give a bright or pleasing aspect to)
Swedish
1 entries- förgylla verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Thai
1 entries- ปิดทอง verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Turkish
2 entries- süslemek verb (to adorn)
- yaldızlamak verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Ukrainian
4 entries- золоти́ти verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
- позлоти́ти verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
- позоло́чувати verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
- позолоти́ти verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Vietnamese
1 entries- trá verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Welsh
2 entries- addurno verb (to adorn)
- euro verb (to cover with a thin layer of gold)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
One can never gild shit so it does not smell.
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Nine pounds of gold was needed to gild the victory medals.
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Perceiving that the general effect was gloomy,—so that the airy castle looked like a feudal fortress, or a monastery of the Middle Ages, or a state prison of our own times, rather than the home of pleasure and repose which he intended it to be,—the owner, regardless of expense, resolved to gild the exterior from top to bottom.
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