Definition of guild in English:

guild

(also gild)

noun ɡɪldɡɪld

1A medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power.
（中世纪工匠或商人的）基尔特，行会，同业公会
Example sentencesExamples
- Masons were highly skilled craftsmen and they belonged to a guild.
- Given the breakdown of corporations and guilds, and the divisiveness of politics and religion, the vehicle of this integration was the voluntary association in which talk of politics and religion was banned.
- Since medieval times, the merchants in most towns in Europe had organized themselves into guilds, just like craftsmen.
- Theirs is a view akin to those of the medieval guilds that protected their knowledge by allowing only initiates into full understanding of the one truth.
- The right model for the teacher unions is the medieval craftsman guilds, the hallmarks of which were professional ability and demonstrated accomplishment.
- There is evidence of a major Roman road and cemetery, including the urns of two people from the second or third century, a Roman dock, a medieval church, and the hall of the medieval guild of the Cordwainers.
- The Spanish eventually organized the local craftsmen into guilds and taught them new techniques of making silver.
- When dissection was introduced into universities and surgical guilds throughout the late medieval and early modern periods, secular rulers only permitted dissections of executed criminals.
- The townsmen invested in communal halls, one for each of the four guilds, which served social, charitable, and religious purposes.
- A group of skilled craftsmen in the same trade might form themselves into a guild.
- These range from merchant guilds and systems of agricultural organization to regional and international trade networks.
- The merchant guilds of Canton controlled all trade with the European merchants, and the movement of Europeans was severely restricted.
- The merchant guilds they formed controlled markets, weights and measures, and tolls, and negotiated charters granting their towns borough status.
- In the Middle Ages, merchant and trade guilds determined who could practice a particular profession.
- Four decades after Rerum Novarum, the Vicar of Christ on earth preached as his only response to the Depression cooperation between management and labour through the resurrection of medieval guilds.
- Local homeowners organized Arts and Crafts guilds for the production of furniture, pottery, metal, and leatherwork for their own homes.
- When the power of the guilds to control the quantities of goods brought to market was wrested from them, their regulations could no longer be enforced.
- Not that we should assume that the three classes, as separately listed in 1411, necessarily represent the lines of division of opinion, and that this was a demarcation between between Merchant Gild and craft gilds.
- The first professional societies were the medieval guilds.
- The medieval guilds of Europe were essentially cooperative organizations of equals, i.e., anarchist.
1. 1.1 An association of people for mutual aid or the pursuit of a common goal.
  （互助性或追求共同目标的）协会，联合会
  Example sentencesExamples
  If teachers were represented by some kind of professional association, like a guild or trade union, we could avoid all the misery this government is bringing into our schools.
  She was a member of the local dramatic society, a founder member of Bagenalstown ICA guild and was also a keen bridge player with the local club.
  Our editors guilds and unions of journalists have nothing to show by way of information and legal resources that can respond quickly to attacks on journalists.
  Our law acknowledges the right of members of a particular trade to organize together into a guild or union.
  The November meeting of Emo ICA guild was held in the Gate Lodge on Wednesday, November 5.
  Emo ICA guild held their September meeting in the Gate Lodge.
  If I were to be represented within a labor organization, I would need to be in a tech guild, not a tech union.
  When the guild took on the project the lodge was in a terrible state of disrepair and was almost derelict.
  Hollywood's writer's guilds and unions were disbanded and state approved writers took the reigns of everyday programming.
  Leaders of the striking guilds praise the assistance they've received from other union leaders.
  This was typical modesty of a sort not that common in our guild.
  Filmmakers in the Directors Guild of Canada, for example, have never been able to decide in the 30 years of its existence whether they are in a guild or a union.
  It needs serious argumentation before the journalistic guild and society.
  The January meeting of the Emo ICA guild was held in the Gate Lodge.
  Soon enough, word of a possible co-operative artist guild began to spread, leading to a surprisingly successful organizational meeting.
  Only barristers-in-training study in one of the four Inns of Court in London, which are crosses between learned societies and choosy guilds.
  What is the difference between a guild and a union, and is one better than the other for programmers in particular?
  The guild has decades of catching up to do in order to reduce the animosity and alienation the arguable majority of local musicians feel towards them.
  Four members of the guild will attend the council meeting in the Amburn Lodge Hotel in Ennis.
  The guilds and unions in the American film industry are still strong, and have the clout (in theory) to protect their workers against the depredations of management, and against their own love of the Job.
  Synonyms
  association, society, union, league, alliance, coalition, federation, consortium, syndicate, combine, trust, organization, company, cooperative, partnership, fellowship, club, order, lodge, sisterhood, sorority, brotherhood, fraternity
  rare consociation, sodality
2. 1.2Ecology A group of species that have similar requirements and play a similar role within a community.
  〔生态〕共位群，功能群
  Example sentencesExamples
  Furthermore, different guilds within the herbivore trophic level may be influenced differently by N addition, predators, and abiotic conditions.
  Those figures show that, within guilds, species richness and individual abundance are not necessarily correlated.
  Unfortunately, size ratio analyses are not useful when the same measurement is not available for all species within the guild.
  And, to avoid competition, natural selection has made sure that, even within a guild there are tiny differences in the diets, habitats or behaviours of each member.
  The differences in logo transformed mass values between successively sized species within a guild are the size ratio data.

Derivatives

guildsman

nounPlural guildsmen ˈɡɪldzmənˈɡɪl(d)zmən

A member of a guild.
a medieval guildsman
Example sentencesExamples
- The monopolistic practices of the urban guildsmen often cost their rural suppliers dear, and inevitably reduced competitiveness throughout the whole industry.
- It was established in 1352 by the two Cambridge guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary to train priests in theology and canon law, and to provide prayers for the souls of guildsmen departed.
- The majority of Venetian guildsmen (56 per cent in the good times of 1595) worked in the non-export trades.

Origin

Late Old English: probably from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch gilde, of Germanic origin; related to yield.

Rhymes

build, deskilled, gild, self-willed, sild, unfilled, unfulfilled, unskilled, untilled, upbuild

Definition of guild in US English:

guild

(also gild)

nounɡildɡɪld

1A medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power.
（中世纪工匠或商人的）基尔特，行会，同业公会
Example sentencesExamples
- Not that we should assume that the three classes, as separately listed in 1411, necessarily represent the lines of division of opinion, and that this was a demarcation between between Merchant Gild and craft gilds.
- The merchant guilds of Canton controlled all trade with the European merchants, and the movement of Europeans was severely restricted.
- There is evidence of a major Roman road and cemetery, including the urns of two people from the second or third century, a Roman dock, a medieval church, and the hall of the medieval guild of the Cordwainers.
- The medieval guilds of Europe were essentially cooperative organizations of equals, i.e., anarchist.
- The first professional societies were the medieval guilds.
- A group of skilled craftsmen in the same trade might form themselves into a guild.
- The townsmen invested in communal halls, one for each of the four guilds, which served social, charitable, and religious purposes.
- Given the breakdown of corporations and guilds, and the divisiveness of politics and religion, the vehicle of this integration was the voluntary association in which talk of politics and religion was banned.
- Theirs is a view akin to those of the medieval guilds that protected their knowledge by allowing only initiates into full understanding of the one truth.
- In the Middle Ages, merchant and trade guilds determined who could practice a particular profession.
- The merchant guilds they formed controlled markets, weights and measures, and tolls, and negotiated charters granting their towns borough status.
- The right model for the teacher unions is the medieval craftsman guilds, the hallmarks of which were professional ability and demonstrated accomplishment.
- The Spanish eventually organized the local craftsmen into guilds and taught them new techniques of making silver.
- These range from merchant guilds and systems of agricultural organization to regional and international trade networks.
- Since medieval times, the merchants in most towns in Europe had organized themselves into guilds, just like craftsmen.
- Masons were highly skilled craftsmen and they belonged to a guild.
- When dissection was introduced into universities and surgical guilds throughout the late medieval and early modern periods, secular rulers only permitted dissections of executed criminals.
- Local homeowners organized Arts and Crafts guilds for the production of furniture, pottery, metal, and leatherwork for their own homes.
- Four decades after Rerum Novarum, the Vicar of Christ on earth preached as his only response to the Depression cooperation between management and labour through the resurrection of medieval guilds.
- When the power of the guilds to control the quantities of goods brought to market was wrested from them, their regulations could no longer be enforced.
1. 1.1 An association of people for mutual aid or the pursuit of a common goal.
  （互助性或追求共同目标的）协会，联合会
  Example sentencesExamples
  Our editors guilds and unions of journalists have nothing to show by way of information and legal resources that can respond quickly to attacks on journalists.
  It needs serious argumentation before the journalistic guild and society.
  What is the difference between a guild and a union, and is one better than the other for programmers in particular?
  The guild has decades of catching up to do in order to reduce the animosity and alienation the arguable majority of local musicians feel towards them.
  The November meeting of Emo ICA guild was held in the Gate Lodge on Wednesday, November 5.
  When the guild took on the project the lodge was in a terrible state of disrepair and was almost derelict.
  Only barristers-in-training study in one of the four Inns of Court in London, which are crosses between learned societies and choosy guilds.
  Leaders of the striking guilds praise the assistance they've received from other union leaders.
  Hollywood's writer's guilds and unions were disbanded and state approved writers took the reigns of everyday programming.
  This was typical modesty of a sort not that common in our guild.
  Filmmakers in the Directors Guild of Canada, for example, have never been able to decide in the 30 years of its existence whether they are in a guild or a union.
  Emo ICA guild held their September meeting in the Gate Lodge.
  If teachers were represented by some kind of professional association, like a guild or trade union, we could avoid all the misery this government is bringing into our schools.
  Our law acknowledges the right of members of a particular trade to organize together into a guild or union.
  The guilds and unions in the American film industry are still strong, and have the clout (in theory) to protect their workers against the depredations of management, and against their own love of the Job.
  Soon enough, word of a possible co-operative artist guild began to spread, leading to a surprisingly successful organizational meeting.
  The January meeting of the Emo ICA guild was held in the Gate Lodge.
  If I were to be represented within a labor organization, I would need to be in a tech guild, not a tech union.
  Four members of the guild will attend the council meeting in the Amburn Lodge Hotel in Ennis.
  She was a member of the local dramatic society, a founder member of Bagenalstown ICA guild and was also a keen bridge player with the local club.
  Synonyms
  association, society, union, league, alliance, coalition, federation, consortium, syndicate, combine, trust, organization, company, cooperative, partnership, fellowship, club, order, lodge, sisterhood, sorority, brotherhood, fraternity
2. 1.2Ecology A group of species that have similar requirements and play a similar role within a community.
  〔生态〕共位群，功能群
  Example sentencesExamples
  And, to avoid competition, natural selection has made sure that, even within a guild there are tiny differences in the diets, habitats or behaviours of each member.
  Unfortunately, size ratio analyses are not useful when the same measurement is not available for all species within the guild.
  The differences in logo transformed mass values between successively sized species within a guild are the size ratio data.
  Furthermore, different guilds within the herbivore trophic level may be influenced differently by N addition, predators, and abiotic conditions.
  Those figures show that, within guilds, species richness and individual abundance are not necessarily correlated.

Origin

Late Old English: probably from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch gilde, of Germanic origin; related to yield.

单词	guild
释义	Definition of guild in English: guild (also gild) noun ɡɪldɡɪld 1A medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power. （中世纪工匠或商人的）基尔特，行会，同业公会 Example sentencesExamples Masons were highly skilled craftsmen and they belonged to a guild. Given the breakdown of corporations and guilds, and the divisiveness of politics and religion, the vehicle of this integration was the voluntary association in which talk of politics and religion was banned. Since medieval times, the merchants in most towns in Europe had organized themselves into guilds, just like craftsmen. Theirs is a view akin to those of the medieval guilds that protected their knowledge by allowing only initiates into full understanding of the one truth. The right model for the teacher unions is the medieval craftsman guilds, the hallmarks of which were professional ability and demonstrated accomplishment. There is evidence of a major Roman road and cemetery, including the urns of two people from the second or third century, a Roman dock, a medieval church, and the hall of the medieval guild of the Cordwainers. The Spanish eventually organized the local craftsmen into guilds and taught them new techniques of making silver. When dissection was introduced into universities and surgical guilds throughout the late medieval and early modern periods, secular rulers only permitted dissections of executed criminals. The townsmen invested in communal halls, one for each of the four guilds, which served social, charitable, and religious purposes. A group of skilled craftsmen in the same trade might form themselves into a guild. These range from merchant guilds and systems of agricultural organization to regional and international trade networks. The merchant guilds of Canton controlled all trade with the European merchants, and the movement of Europeans was severely restricted. The merchant guilds they formed controlled markets, weights and measures, and tolls, and negotiated charters granting their towns borough status. In the Middle Ages, merchant and trade guilds determined who could practice a particular profession. Four decades after Rerum Novarum, the Vicar of Christ on earth preached as his only response to the Depression cooperation between management and labour through the resurrection of medieval guilds. Local homeowners organized Arts and Crafts guilds for the production of furniture, pottery, metal, and leatherwork for their own homes. When the power of the guilds to control the quantities of goods brought to market was wrested from them, their regulations could no longer be enforced. Not that we should assume that the three classes, as separately listed in 1411, necessarily represent the lines of division of opinion, and that this was a demarcation between between Merchant Gild and craft gilds. The first professional societies were the medieval guilds. The medieval guilds of Europe were essentially cooperative organizations of equals, i.e., anarchist. 1.1 An association of people for mutual aid or the pursuit of a common goal. （互助性或追求共同目标的）协会，联合会 Example sentencesExamples If teachers were represented by some kind of professional association, like a guild or trade union, we could avoid all the misery this government is bringing into our schools. She was a member of the local dramatic society, a founder member of Bagenalstown ICA guild and was also a keen bridge player with the local club. Our editors guilds and unions of journalists have nothing to show by way of information and legal resources that can respond quickly to attacks on journalists. Our law acknowledges the right of members of a particular trade to organize together into a guild or union. The November meeting of Emo ICA guild was held in the Gate Lodge on Wednesday, November 5. Emo ICA guild held their September meeting in the Gate Lodge. If I were to be represented within a labor organization, I would need to be in a tech guild, not a tech union. When the guild took on the project the lodge was in a terrible state of disrepair and was almost derelict. Hollywood's writer's guilds and unions were disbanded and state approved writers took the reigns of everyday programming. Leaders of the striking guilds praise the assistance they've received from other union leaders. This was typical modesty of a sort not that common in our guild. Filmmakers in the Directors Guild of Canada, for example, have never been able to decide in the 30 years of its existence whether they are in a guild or a union. It needs serious argumentation before the journalistic guild and society. The January meeting of the Emo ICA guild was held in the Gate Lodge. Soon enough, word of a possible co-operative artist guild began to spread, leading to a surprisingly successful organizational meeting. Only barristers-in-training study in one of the four Inns of Court in London, which are crosses between learned societies and choosy guilds. What is the difference between a guild and a union, and is one better than the other for programmers in particular? The guild has decades of catching up to do in order to reduce the animosity and alienation the arguable majority of local musicians feel towards them. Four members of the guild will attend the council meeting in the Amburn Lodge Hotel in Ennis. The guilds and unions in the American film industry are still strong, and have the clout (in theory) to protect their workers against the depredations of management, and against their own love of the Job. Synonyms association, society, union, league, alliance, coalition, federation, consortium, syndicate, combine, trust, organization, company, cooperative, partnership, fellowship, club, order, lodge, sisterhood, sorority, brotherhood, fraternity rare consociation, sodality 1.2Ecology A group of species that have similar requirements and play a similar role within a community. 〔生态〕共位群，功能群 Example sentencesExamples Furthermore, different guilds within the herbivore trophic level may be influenced differently by N addition, predators, and abiotic conditions. Those figures show that, within guilds, species richness and individual abundance are not necessarily correlated. Unfortunately, size ratio analyses are not useful when the same measurement is not available for all species within the guild. And, to avoid competition, natural selection has made sure that, even within a guild there are tiny differences in the diets, habitats or behaviours of each member. The differences in logo transformed mass values between successively sized species within a guild are the size ratio data. Derivatives guildsman nounPlural guildsmen ˈɡɪldzmənˈɡɪl(d)zmən A member of a guild. a medieval guildsman Example sentencesExamples The monopolistic practices of the urban guildsmen often cost their rural suppliers dear, and inevitably reduced competitiveness throughout the whole industry. It was established in 1352 by the two Cambridge guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary to train priests in theology and canon law, and to provide prayers for the souls of guildsmen departed. The majority of Venetian guildsmen (56 per cent in the good times of 1595) worked in the non-export trades. Origin Late Old English: probably from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch gilde, of Germanic origin; related to yield. Rhymes build, deskilled, gild, self-willed, sild, unfilled, unfulfilled, unskilled, untilled, upbuild Definition of guild in US English: guild (also gild) nounɡildɡɪld 1A medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power. （中世纪工匠或商人的）基尔特，行会，同业公会 Example sentencesExamples Not that we should assume that the three classes, as separately listed in 1411, necessarily represent the lines of division of opinion, and that this was a demarcation between between Merchant Gild and craft gilds. The merchant guilds of Canton controlled all trade with the European merchants, and the movement of Europeans was severely restricted. There is evidence of a major Roman road and cemetery, including the urns of two people from the second or third century, a Roman dock, a medieval church, and the hall of the medieval guild of the Cordwainers. The medieval guilds of Europe were essentially cooperative organizations of equals, i.e., anarchist. The first professional societies were the medieval guilds. A group of skilled craftsmen in the same trade might form themselves into a guild. The townsmen invested in communal halls, one for each of the four guilds, which served social, charitable, and religious purposes. Given the breakdown of corporations and guilds, and the divisiveness of politics and religion, the vehicle of this integration was the voluntary association in which talk of politics and religion was banned. Theirs is a view akin to those of the medieval guilds that protected their knowledge by allowing only initiates into full understanding of the one truth. In the Middle Ages, merchant and trade guilds determined who could practice a particular profession. The merchant guilds they formed controlled markets, weights and measures, and tolls, and negotiated charters granting their towns borough status. The right model for the teacher unions is the medieval craftsman guilds, the hallmarks of which were professional ability and demonstrated accomplishment. The Spanish eventually organized the local craftsmen into guilds and taught them new techniques of making silver. These range from merchant guilds and systems of agricultural organization to regional and international trade networks. Since medieval times, the merchants in most towns in Europe had organized themselves into guilds, just like craftsmen. Masons were highly skilled craftsmen and they belonged to a guild. When dissection was introduced into universities and surgical guilds throughout the late medieval and early modern periods, secular rulers only permitted dissections of executed criminals. Local homeowners organized Arts and Crafts guilds for the production of furniture, pottery, metal, and leatherwork for their own homes. Four decades after Rerum Novarum, the Vicar of Christ on earth preached as his only response to the Depression cooperation between management and labour through the resurrection of medieval guilds. When the power of the guilds to control the quantities of goods brought to market was wrested from them, their regulations could no longer be enforced. 1.1 An association of people for mutual aid or the pursuit of a common goal. （互助性或追求共同目标的）协会，联合会 Example sentencesExamples Our editors guilds and unions of journalists have nothing to show by way of information and legal resources that can respond quickly to attacks on journalists. It needs serious argumentation before the journalistic guild and society. What is the difference between a guild and a union, and is one better than the other for programmers in particular? The guild has decades of catching up to do in order to reduce the animosity and alienation the arguable majority of local musicians feel towards them. The November meeting of Emo ICA guild was held in the Gate Lodge on Wednesday, November 5. When the guild took on the project the lodge was in a terrible state of disrepair and was almost derelict. Only barristers-in-training study in one of the four Inns of Court in London, which are crosses between learned societies and choosy guilds. Leaders of the striking guilds praise the assistance they've received from other union leaders. Hollywood's writer's guilds and unions were disbanded and state approved writers took the reigns of everyday programming. This was typical modesty of a sort not that common in our guild. Filmmakers in the Directors Guild of Canada, for example, have never been able to decide in the 30 years of its existence whether they are in a guild or a union. Emo ICA guild held their September meeting in the Gate Lodge. If teachers were represented by some kind of professional association, like a guild or trade union, we could avoid all the misery this government is bringing into our schools. Our law acknowledges the right of members of a particular trade to organize together into a guild or union. The guilds and unions in the American film industry are still strong, and have the clout (in theory) to protect their workers against the depredations of management, and against their own love of the Job. Soon enough, word of a possible co-operative artist guild began to spread, leading to a surprisingly successful organizational meeting. The January meeting of the Emo ICA guild was held in the Gate Lodge. If I were to be represented within a labor organization, I would need to be in a tech guild, not a tech union. Four members of the guild will attend the council meeting in the Amburn Lodge Hotel in Ennis. She was a member of the local dramatic society, a founder member of Bagenalstown ICA guild and was also a keen bridge player with the local club. Synonyms association, society, union, league, alliance, coalition, federation, consortium, syndicate, combine, trust, organization, company, cooperative, partnership, fellowship, club, order, lodge, sisterhood, sorority, brotherhood, fraternity 1.2Ecology A group of species that have similar requirements and play a similar role within a community. 〔生态〕共位群，功能群 Example sentencesExamples And, to avoid competition, natural selection has made sure that, even within a guild there are tiny differences in the diets, habitats or behaviours of each member. Unfortunately, size ratio analyses are not useful when the same measurement is not available for all species within the guild. The differences in logo transformed mass values between successively sized species within a guild are the size ratio data. Furthermore, different guilds within the herbivore trophic level may be influenced differently by N addition, predators, and abiotic conditions. Those figures show that, within guilds, species richness and individual abundance are not necessarily correlated. Origin Late Old English: probably from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch gilde, of Germanic origin; related to yield.
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