Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A guilder.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several gold coins formerly current in Germany from the fourteenth century, and in the Low Countries from the fifteenth century: the name was afterward applied to silver coins of Germany and the Netherlands.
- noun A former silver coin of Austria, worth 1s. 8d. English, or about 40 cents; also, a current silver coin of the kingdom of the Netherlands, of equal value. See cut in preceding column.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
guilder .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An old
currency of theNetherlands (and its overseas territory theNetherlands Antilles ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents
- noun formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents
Etymologies
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Examples
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The gentleman shut to the door at length, without having seen anything strange inside it; and then he talked long and low with the tradesmen, and, as his accent was different from that which August was used to, the child could distinguish little that he said, except the name of the king and the word "gulden" again and again.
The N�rnberg Stove 1892
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The gentleman shut to the door at length, without having seen anything strange inside it; and then he talked long and low with the tradesmen, and, as his accent was different from that which August was used to, the child could distinguish little that he said, except the name of the king and the word "gulden" again and again.
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know Various 1880
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The gentleman shut to the door at length, without having seen anything strange inside it; and then he talked long and low with the tradesmen, and, as his accent was different from that which August was used to, the child could distinguish little that he said, except the name of the king and the word "gulden" again and again.
Bimbi 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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“I, the undersigned, promise Signora Loisa Polzelli (in case I shall be disposed to marry again) to take no other for wife than the said Loisa Polzelli; and if I remain a widower, I promise the said Loisa Polzelli after my death to leave her a life pension of 300 gulden, that is 300 florins in Vienna money.
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1903
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The doctor's enormous hand took her bag from her, extracted the two gulden pieces, and put one in each of her hands.
Politics 101 2010
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She had been warned beforehand about the two collections; she had her two guldens ready as the elders advanced down the aisle, but then her eye caught the notes in the doctor's hands -- they were almost hidden, but she thought that they were for ten gulden.
Politics 101 2010
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A Dutch East India Company "merchant" (coopman) might earn around 23 reals per month (70 gulden).
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A Dutch East India Company "assistant-merchant" (ondercoopman) might earn around 13 reals per month (40 gulden).
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Florin was another word for gulden, the basic unit of Dutch currency.
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A Dutch East India Company sailor (matroos) might earn about the same (8 or 10 gulden per month at roughly 3 gulden per real).
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