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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. having the deep slightly brownish color of gold;
- Example: "long aureate (or golden) hair"
- Example: "a gold carpet"
[syn: aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden]

2. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing;
- Example: "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"
- Example: "meretricious praise"
- Example: "a meretricious argument"
[syn: gilded, meretricious, specious]

3. rich and superior in quality;
- Example: "a princely sum"
- Example: "gilded dining rooms"
[syn: deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous]

4. made from or covered with gold;
- Example: "gold coins"
- Example: "the gold dome of the Capitol"
- Example: "the golden calf"
- Example: "gilded icons"
[syn: gold, golden, gilded]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt
   (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold.
   [root]234. See Gold.]
   1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a
      golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded
      chariots." --Pope.
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            No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. --Pope.
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   2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
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            Let oft good humor, mild and gay,
            Gild the calm evening of your day.    --Trumbull.
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   3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to
      embellish; as, to gild a lie. --Shak.
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   4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.]
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            This grand liquior that hath gilded them. --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

gilded
    adj 1: having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long
           aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet" [syn:
           aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden]
    2: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and
       perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious
       praise"; "a meretricious argument" [syn: gilded,
       meretricious, specious]
    3: rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded
       dining rooms" [syn: deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious,
       opulent, princely, sumptuous]
    4: made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome
       of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons" [syn:
       gold, golden, gilded]