Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Money.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An occasional preterit and past participle of geld
- noun A gelding.
- noun See
geld . - noun Gilding; gilt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Trubute, tax.
- noun obsolete A gelding.
- noun obsolete Gilding; tinsel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
Gilding ;gilt . - noun slang
Money . - noun Judaism Money given as a
gift onHanukkah . - noun Judaism
Candy eaten on Hanukkah in the shape ofcoins , wrapped in metallic foil. - verb Simple past and past participle of
geld - noun A
gelding .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun informal terms for money
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Students of another local Jewish institution, Chabad Hebrew School in Blue Ash, will be building their menorah out of chocolate coins, known as gelt, on Sunday morning.
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April 10th, 2009 12: 37pm stanley Jerusalem only the gelt is the problem to getting there - the funt does not buy much these days, so I will have to suffer the jibes of the punctuaters as I drown in the lonly sea of common sense alone - well more or less:)
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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It’s called gelt because the lesson learned is worthwhile, as precious as money, and more important than whatever was lost or spilled or forgotten.
THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001
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It’s called gelt because the lesson learned is worthwhile, as precious as money, and more important than whatever was lost or spilled or forgotten.
THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001
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The suck ups to the suits will allows have the gelt to run, but public financing allows folks who want to serve the voters (without "servicing" the voters) to have a decent shot.
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When I was a child, my truth about Hanukkah was that, as the only Jewish kid in my class, Hanukkah meant that my mom would bake shortbread cookies in shapes of menorahs and dreidels and put colored sprinkles on them and bring them to school for my classmates while she explained the story of the Maccabees and handed out dreidels and chocolate gelt.
Shawna Dolansky: The Truth(s) About Hanukkah Shawna Dolansky 2011
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At that house, he would stop playing his game of solitaire over in the corner table and, cigar-smoke billowing around his massive figure, have me ask him in Yiddish -- bitte mia gelt -- "please give me some money," before peeling off a fresh ten soles bill.
David Kersh: Time-travel to Peru With My Son David Kersh 2012
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Even the years my dad worked at a small IT company in Markham, the four of us would get to attend a Chanukah party where the woman of the household would fry up the most delicious latkes and treat every kid there with a piece of chocolate gelt.
Bibbity Bobbity Babka Sarah 2009
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It seemed a natural enough progression to me from dreydels, to gelt to a new Walkman ™.
Chanukkah! Chanukah! Hanukkah! « The Blog at 16th and Q 2009
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It seemed a natural enough progression to me from dreydels, to gelt to a new Walkman ™.
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