Thesaurus results for GUILD

guild

noun

ˈgild

variants also gild

Definition of guild

as in organization

a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest after his apprenticeship, he was able to join the stonemasons' guild

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Recent Examples of guild Currently, a GoFundMe is open to help raise funds for the guild’s pursuit of a new home. — Anna Ortiz, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2026 London joined the organization in 2018, desiring to bring a chapter of the guild to his community in Seattle. — Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 16 June 2026 Participants also include national film bodies, representing a range of sales, production and distribution companies, as well as industry associations and guilds. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 26 June 2026 The guild received a record number of submissions for its 13th annual celebration of outstanding creative visual contributions of location professionals in contemporary and period films and TV shows, along with commercials and film commissions from around the world. — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 24 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for guild

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Noun

The organization warned that as search-and-rescue teams begin to scale back operations, humanitarian needs—particularly food, medical care and protection services—could intensify rather than diminish.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
The Ultimate Fighting Championship is the world’s largest professional MMA organization.

— Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026

Definition of organization

Noun

The average American consumes about 20 pounds — almost 4 gallons — of ice cream each year, the association also reported.

— Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
However, if future disappointment is to be avoided, something will need to change not just at the national level but also within Asian soccer’s governing association.

— Simon Chadwick, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

Definition of association

Noun

Casa Bonita has been a Denver institution for more than 50 years.

— Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
The surge also did considerable damage to the buildings within the surge zone, 85% of which were residential buildings, according to New York University's Furman Center, an empirical research institution.

— Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 4 July 2026

Definition of institution

Noun

Steinbeck creates a microcosm of American society, where disability, gender, race and class are all represented and shaped by an economic hierarchy.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
The comments sorted themselves into camps, each revealing something interesting about how our society has come to think about motherhood, sacrifice and raising children.

— Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 30 June 2026

Definition of society

Noun

The institute found that if current enrollment and completion rates continue, most California 9th graders will not earn a bachelor’s degree.

— Molly Gibbs, Mercury News, 3 July 2026
More than 20 sites across Kyiv were hit, including residential apartment blocks, a hotel, a research institute and an ambulance station.

— Joanna Kakissis, NPR, 2 July 2026

Definition of institute

Noun

The warning is the second issued by UCSB police since May, when an 18-year-old freshman reported she was raped and strangled after meeting a man at a Sigma Pi fraternity party before returning to her dorm at Tropicana Gardens in Isla Vista.

— Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
While fraternities and sororities often have their own chapter gatherings and organizational conferences, the picnic creates a space where members from different organizations can come together in a more informal setting.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2026

Definition of fraternity

Noun

There's no realistic way that a constitutional amendment that controversial — which requires two-thirds approval from both chambers and three-fourths of the states to ratify — could pass in this Congress.

— Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 7 July 2026
Lilting piano follows her through the darkness of the castle’s chambers.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026

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