gulden
Americannoun
-
guldens,
plural
-
gulden
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of gulden
1590–1600; < Dutch gulden ( florijin ) golden (florin)
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
The Free State of Danzig chose the "gulden" of about equal value.
From Time Magazine Archive
Willi promises his impecunious friend that he will gamble with what little money he can lay his hands on in the hope of winning 1,000 gulden.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is the prodigy as meal ticket: Wolfgang and his gifted sister Nannerl carted from court to court by Leopold for a few gulden, ducats, florins, pocket watches and snuffboxes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The relative stability of numerous foreign currencies, prompted the harassed Jean to transfer his currency into pounds, gulden, Scandinavian kroner, U. S. dollars.
From Time Magazine Archive
As settled in this and the following year, the system of Electoral and Lower Saxony was as follows:— Reichs thaler = 24 gulden groschen.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw
And when he lost twenty or thirty guldens at a throw, he had just as many more when Ezekiel pocketed them.
From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Wilhelm Hauff
It seems he must have saved up three hundred guldens more, which are causing him a good deal of embarrassment.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
They will keep me a prisoner until you, Sir Count, have paid down the sum of twenty thousand guldens for me.
From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Wilhelm Hauff
"As much as you like, even if it was a hundred guldens," said the Emperor of the Ball, pleased with his gains; and the Stout Ezekiel shook the dice and threw fifteen.
From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Wilhelm Hauff
The tender of silver divisional coins was limited to 10 guldens, and that of copper coins to 1 gulden.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
