gulden

[gool-dn]

gul·den

[gool-dn]
noun, plural gul·dens, gul·den.

Origin:
1590–1600; < Dutch gulden (florijin) golden (florin)
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Gulden is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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guilder, gilder or gulden (ˈɡɪldə)
 
n , pl -ders, -der, -dens, -den
1.  Also called: florin the former standard monetary unit of the Netherlands, divided into 100 cents; replaced by the euro in 2002
2.  the standard monetary unit of the Netherlands Antilles and Surinam, divided into 100 cents
3.  any of various former gold or silver coins of Germany, Austria, or the Netherlands
 
[C15: changed from Middle Dutch gulden, literally: golden]
 
gilder, gilder or gulden
 
n
 
[C15: changed from Middle Dutch gulden, literally: golden]
 
gulden, gilder or gulden
 
n
 
[C15: changed from Middle Dutch gulden, literally: golden]

gulden (ˈɡʊldən)
 
n , pl -dens, -den
a variant of guilder

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