guild

See also: Guild

English

From Middle English gilde, from Old Norse gildi (“payment, guild”).

guild (plural guilds)

A group of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages.
(ecology) A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits.
(video games) An organized group of players who regularly play together in a multiplayer game.

(medieval professional associations): Hanse (merchants)
(modern professional associations): trade union, union, professional association

association of tradespeople

Armenian: գիլդիա (hy) (gildia), համքարություն (hy) (hamkʿarutʿyun)
Bulgarian: еснаф (bg) m (esnaf), гилдия (bg) f (gildija)
Catalan: gremi (ca) m, ram (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 行會 (zh), 行会 (zh) (hánghuì), 同業公會 (zh), 同业公会 (zh) (tóngyè gōnghuì), 公會 (zh), 公会 (zh) (gōnghuì)
Czech: cech (cs) m
Danish: lav (da)
Dutch: gilde (nl) n
Esperanto: gildo (eo)
Finnish: kilta (fi)
French: guilde (fr)
Galician: gremio m
German: Gilde (de) f, Zunft (de) f
Hungarian: céh (hu)
Ido: gildo (io)
Irish: gild m (historical), cuallacht f

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000, Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, HarperCollins Publishers, 2003

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