merchant guild

noun

1. a medieval guild composed of merchants.

Word History and Origins

Origin of merchant guild¹

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

Latvia traces its Christmas tree traditions back to 1510, when a merchant guild called the House of the Black Heads carried a tree through the city, decorated it, and later burned it down.

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Hoastman, hōst′man, n. a member of an old merchant guild in Newcastle, with charge of coal-shipping, &c.

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He was dismissed from the privy council; his portrait was removed from the hall of Trinity College; the Merchant Guild of Dublin struck his name off their rolls.

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In towns not large enough to admit of distinct companies, one merchant guild comprehended the traders in general, or the chief of them; and this, from the reign of Henry II. downwards, became the subject of incorporating charters.

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The earliest unmistakable mention of the merchant guild is at the end of the eleventh or the beginning of the twelfth century.

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