guilds

noun

variants also gilds
plural of guild
as in organizations
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 guilds Canal+ has pledged more than $1 billion (€980 million) for French and European cinema over five years in a fresh deal with France’s BLOC group, gathering film guilds, SRF, the SPI, the UPC, DIRE, the SDI and Animfrance, as well as director body ARP. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 July 2026 Most similarly to this year’s plan, the TV Academy attempted to move seven categories to the Creative Arts Emmys in 2005, until the guilds balked. — Michael Schneider, Variety, 17 July 2026 While Heated Rivalry has been scooping up major awards from various guilds and voting groups, including for leads Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams, the show remains ineligible for Emmys consideration. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 8 July 2026 Hollywood guilds are currently wrangling with the perils and possibilities of AI. — Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026 The guilds are in a tough position. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026 From guilds to cooperatives in the industrial era In his time, Leo XIII rejected both unfettered capitalism and revolutionary socialism. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 May 2026 Gentile da Foligno in Perugia Italy was one of the few regions in Latin Christendom where physicians organized into guilds in the fourteenth century and thus routinely treated the general populace, rather than merely the wealthier mercantile and aristocratic classes. — Literary Hub, 27 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guilds
  1. organizations
  2. societies
  3. institutions
  4. associations
  5. brotherhoods
  6. institutes
  7. fraternities
  8. chambers
Noun
  • Free The Charlotte Pride Festival will feature live music, including a performance by Lauren Sanderson, along with hundreds of vendors, community organizations, food trucks and local businesses.
    — Evan Moore August 1, Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 2026
  • What organizations choose to do with that data, and who is accountable for the decision, is the question the surveys do not answer.
    — Cindy Rodriguez Constable, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of organizations
Noun
  • Rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, guano transformed agricultural productivity at a time when expanding populations and industrializing societies demanded more food than traditional farming systems could produce.
    — Edward D. Melillo, Fortune, 27 July 2026
  • The competition for promotion and tenure, the awarding of grants, and admission to exclusive professional societies is intense.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
Definition of societies
Noun
  • Along the way, some businesses failed while others became neighborhood institutions that, collectively, created a place where almost every storefront seemed to have a story behind it.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 27 July 2026
  • Enrollment at private nonprofit and private for-profit 4-year institutions, meanwhile, was essentially unchanged, according to the website.
    — Amy Lavalley, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2026
Definition of institutions
Noun
  • Soon after those 2011 protests, Brand Modi was carefully marketed on television channels and burgeoning social media platforms as the redemptive opposite of the images, associations, and stereotypes attached to the corrupt and feckless system.
    — Asim Ali, Time, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Bringing the companies together gives Kraft Heinz an opportunity to refresh those childhood associations for another generation.
    — Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of associations
Noun
  • The most recognizable are Semana Santa, or Holy Week, processions during the final week of Lent where brotherhoods and robed penitents parade ornate statues of Christ and the Virgin Mary through cities, towns and villages alongside marching bands.
    — Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2026
  • The most recognizable are Holy Week processions during the final week of Lent where brotherhoods and robed penitents parade ornate statues of Christ and the Virgin Mary through cities, towns and villages alongside marching bands.
    — Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2026
Definition of brotherhoods
Noun
  • Founded in 2021, Helical Fusion aims to commercialize fusion research conducted at the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), one of Japan’s leading public research institutes.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 7 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, Beijing widens Japan export curbs, targeting drone makers, nuclear firms and defense institutes.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 6 July 2026
Definition of institutes
Noun
  • 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
  • Members of five historically Black fraternities and sororities will be able to request Michigan license plates featuring their organization's logo.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 19 June 2026
Definition of fraternities
Noun
  • Democrats and Republicans across both chambers in Congress are ready to advance passage of crypto market structure legislation, known as Clarity.
    — Cleve Mesidor, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Democrats hope to retain the office and flip both chambers of the Legislature to gain full control of state government for the first time since 2010.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 July 2026
Definition of chambers

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