What part of speech is gilded?

Gilded can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. gilded is a verb, past participle of gild (infinitive).
  • 2. gilded is a verb, past simple of gild (infinitive).
  • 3. gilded is an adjective.

Inflections

Verb

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • gilded 
    more gilded
    most gilded
  • Positive: gilded 
  • Comparative: more gilded
  • Superlative: most gilded

What does gilded mean?

Definitions

Adjective

gilded - based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
gilded - rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms"
gilded - made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons"
gilded - having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"

Verb

gild - decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold

Examples of gilded

#   Sentence  
1. adj. The gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility.
2. adj. Gilded dining rooms.
3. adj. Gilded icons.
4. adj. The noble lady drove by towards the baron's mansion with her three daughters, in a gilded carriage drawn by six horses.
5. adj. Gilded reins do not make for a better horse.
6. adj. The palace was a gilded cage for the princess.
7. adj. Her godmother scooped out all the inside of the pumpkin, leaving nothing but the rind. Then she struck it with her wand, and the pumpkin was instantly turned into a fine gilded coach.
8. adj. He came into a gilded chamber, where he saw upon a bed, the curtains of which were all open, the most beautiful sight ever beheld—a princess who appeared to be about fifteen or sixteen years of age, and whose bright and resplendent beauty had something divine in it.
9. adj. Sometimes he would give her cheeses made of cow's milk, sometimes ripe fruit, sometimes garlands of fresh flowers, or birds which he had captured in their nests. On one occasion even he presented her with a goblet, gilded at the edges, and on another with a little calf from the mountains.
10. adj. Never has youth been exposed to such dangers of both perversion and arrest as in our own land and day. Increasing urban life with its temptations, prematurities, sedentary occupations, and passive stimuli just when an active life is most needed, early emancipation and a lessening sense for both duty and discipline, the haste to know and do all befitting man's estate before its time, the mad rush for sudden wealth and the reckless fashions set by its gilded youth--all these lack some of the regulatives they still have in older lands with more conservative conditions.
11. adj. The noise of festival / rings through the spacious courts, and rolls along the hall. / There, blazing from the gilded roof, are seen / bright lamps, and torches turn the night to day.
12. adj. There, roof and pinnacle the Dardans tear – / death standing near – and hurl them on the foe, / last arms of need, the weapons of despair; / and gilded beams and rafters down they throw, / ancestral ornaments of days ago.
13. adj. The lavish Gilded Age mansions of the late 1800s and modern-day McMansions both reflect the conspicuous consumption of a powerful wealthy class.
14. adj. "Dear!" said Clarissa, and Lucy shared as she meant her to her disappointment (but not the pang); felt the concord between them; took the hint; thought how the gentry love; gilded her own future with calm; and, taking Mrs. Dalloway's parasol, handled it like a sacred weapon which a Goddess, having acquitted herself honourably in the field of battle, sheds, and placed it in the umbrella stand.
15. verb Who would gild a lily?
16. verb One can never gild shit so it does not smell.
17. verb Nine pounds of gold was needed to gild the victory medals.
18. verb Who would gild a lily?
19. verb One can never gild shit so it does not smell.
20. verb Nine pounds of gold was needed to gild the victory medals.
Sentence  
adj.
The gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility.
Gilded dining rooms.
Gilded icons.
The noble lady drove by towards the baron's mansion with her three daughters, in a gilded carriage drawn by six horses.
Gilded reins do not make for a better horse.
The palace was a gilded cage for the princess.
Her godmother scooped out all the inside of the pumpkin, leaving nothing but the rind. Then she struck it with her wand, and the pumpkin was instantly turned into a fine gilded coach.
He came into a gilded chamber, where he saw upon a bed, the curtains of which were all open, the most beautiful sight ever beheld—a princess who appeared to be about fifteen or sixteen years of age, and whose bright and resplendent beauty had something divine in it.
Sometimes he would give her cheeses made of cow's milk, sometimes ripe fruit, sometimes garlands of fresh flowers, or birds which he had captured in their nests. On one occasion even he presented her with a goblet, gilded at the edges, and on another with a little calf from the mountains.
Never has youth been exposed to such dangers of both perversion and arrest as in our own land and day. Increasing urban life with its temptations, prematurities, sedentary occupations, and passive stimuli just when an active life is most needed, early emancipation and a lessening sense for both duty and discipline, the haste to know and do all befitting man's estate before its time, the mad rush for sudden wealth and the reckless fashions set by its gilded youth--all these lack some of the regulatives they still have in older lands with more conservative conditions.
The noise of festival / rings through the spacious courts, and rolls along the hall. / There, blazing from the gilded roof, are seen / bright lamps, and torches turn the night to day.
There, roof and pinnacle the Dardans tear – / death standing near – and hurl them on the foe, / last arms of need, the weapons of despair; / and gilded beams and rafters down they throw, / ancestral ornaments of days ago.
The lavish Gilded Age mansions of the late 1800s and modern-day McMansions both reflect the conspicuous consumption of a powerful wealthy class.
"Dear!" said Clarissa, and Lucy shared as she meant her to her disappointment (but not the pang); felt the concord between them; took the hint; thought how the gentry love; gilded her own future with calm; and, taking Mrs. Dalloway's parasol, handled it like a sacred weapon which a Goddess, having acquitted herself honourably in the field of battle, sheds, and placed it in the umbrella stand.
verb
Who would gild a lily?
One can never gild shit so it does not smell.
Nine pounds of gold was needed to gild the victory medals.
Who would gild a lily?
One can never gild shit so it does not smell.
Nine pounds of gold was needed to gild the victory medals.

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