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gulden

Pronunciation: /ˈɣʏl.dən/

“gulden” is a Dutch word. Its 8 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. golden, made of gold
  2. precious, excellent, priceless
  3. guilded, plated with gold or coated with something resembling gold

noun

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

Etymology

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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