variants
or less commonly gild
1
: an association of people with similar interests or pursuits
especially
: a medieval association of merchants or craftsmen
2
: a group of organisms that use the same ecological resource in a similar way
a feeding guild
Synonyms
Examples of guild in a Sentence
after his apprenticeship, he was able to join the stonemasons' guild
Recent Examples on the Web
The guild’s Emerging Technology Committee has concluded that some jobs could well become obsolete.
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Gene Maddaus, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
Acher and fellow member Gregg Simon discussed the idea of starting a committee and brought it to Jeremy Kagan, the DGA’s longtime chair of special projects, which organizes educational and cultural programming for the guild.
—Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2024
There is even more to celebrate than usual this year, as tonight marks the first SAG Awards since the end of the guild’s strike in November.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2024
Dawson and her colleagues formed active opera guilds in Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Pittsburgh and Red Bank, New Jersey.
—Michael J. Solender, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
For a long time, guilds prohibited women from working as butchers at all.
—Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
In the meantime, the guild will continue to hold space for puppet fanatics to come together and nerd out.
—Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
For hundreds of years, residents of Valencia, Spain, have celebrated the arrival of spring and paid tribute to San Jose, the patron saint of the carpenters’ guild, by building and then ceremonially burning huge monuments made of wood, cardboard, and paper.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
The Art Directors Guild, Local 800, is expected to follow the cinematographers’ guild, and eventually each of the 13 West Coast locals who are under the IATSE Basic Agreement will get a turn to present their own proposals.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
Gene Maddaus, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
Acher and fellow member Gregg Simon discussed the idea of starting a committee and brought it to Jeremy Kagan, the DGA’s longtime chair of special projects, which organizes educational and cultural programming for the guild.
—Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2024
There is even more to celebrate than usual this year, as tonight marks the first SAG Awards since the end of the guild’s strike in November.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2024
Dawson and her colleagues formed active opera guilds in Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Pittsburgh and Red Bank, New Jersey.
—Michael J. Solender, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
For a long time, guilds prohibited women from working as butchers at all.
—Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
In the meantime, the guild will continue to hold space for puppet fanatics to come together and nerd out.
—Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
For hundreds of years, residents of Valencia, Spain, have celebrated the arrival of spring and paid tribute to San Jose, the patron saint of the carpenters’ guild, by building and then ceremonially burning huge monuments made of wood, cardboard, and paper.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
The Art Directors Guild, Local 800, is expected to follow the cinematographers’ guild, and eventually each of the 13 West Coast locals who are under the IATSE Basic Agreement will get a turn to present their own proposals.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
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“Guild.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guild. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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