Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a guild.
  • noun An advocate of guild socialism.

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Examples

  • That is one reason why the textile guildsman were so opposed to the mechanization of the textile industry.

    Emergent Nations, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Or he goes to the tavern where the Reg-Gok scum gather to drink themselves unconcious and tells a little something to a guildsman.

    In Darkness » Blog Archive » From the Archives: No Clue 2007

  • Advertising was forbidden, and the idea that one master guildsman might produce a better product than his colleagues was regarded as treasonable.

    The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

  • Advertising was forbidden, and the idea that one master guildsman might produce a better product than his colleagues was regarded as treasonable.

    The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

  • A guildsman and counsellor of the town of Shrewsbury, no less.

    A Rare Benedictine Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1988

  • Gunnery was a closed corporation, and the gunner himself a guildsman.

    Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Albert Manucy

  • The guildsman, like the earlier democrat therefore, looks about him for an environment in which this ideal of self-government can be realized.

    Public Opinion Walter Lippmann 1931

  • The slave and the guildsman know where they will sleep every night; it was only the proletarian of individualist industrialism who could get the sack, if not in the style of the Bosphorus, at least in the sense of the Embankment.

    Eugenics and Other Evils 1905

  • It showed a man of serious bearing, and brought to mind the princely guildsman of the Middle Ages.

    Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

  • It was the guild again which procured the raw material, and distributed it in relatively equal proportions amongst its members; or where this was not the case, the time and place were indicated at which the guildsman might buy at a fixed maximum price.

    German Culture Past and Present Ernest Belfort Bax 1890

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