gulden

Meaning

Adj

1. (not-comparable) golden, made of gold
2. (figuratively,not-comparable) precious, excellent, priceless
3. (not-comparable) guilded, plated with gold or coated with something resembling gold

Noun

1. (masculine) the guilder (or florin, abbreviated fl.), the Dutch national currency before the introduction of the Euro in 2002
2. (masculine) the Netherlands Indian gulden, the currency of colonial Indonesia prior to its 1945 independence
3. (masculine) the Netherlands Antillean guilder, the national currency formerly used in the former Netherlands Antilles
4. (masculine) name of several historical gold or silver coins
5. (Suriname,colloquial,informal,masculine) the Surinamese dollar

Hyphenated as

gul‧den

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɣʏl.dən/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch guldijn, guldin, gulden, from Old Dutch *guldīn, from Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz. Equivalent to goud + -en, replaced in modern Dutch with gouden in most contexts (see there for more).