guildsman
noun
a member of a guild.
guildsmen
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pluralof guildsman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In 1717, guildsmen got together for a feast in the Goose & Gridiron tavern in London and the modern Masonic fraternity was born.
From Time Magazine Archive
The guildsmen also propose to establish equality by force, but are shrewd enough to see that if an equilibrium is to be maintained they have to provide institutions for maintaining it.
From Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
They differ in every respect—melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic,—from those which stand for the old guildsmen and their rule-of-thumb notions.
From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel
That the new guildsmen add a great deal that never belonged to the old guildsmen is not only a truth, but is part of the truth I maintain here.
From The New Jerusalem by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
His banquets or meetings of officers, of sharpshooters and guildsmen, are the most interesting of his works.
From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Esther Singleton
