GUILD


Meaning of GUILD in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

medieval

St. Martin's church and its medieval guild were responsible at some stage for providing the bull.

This person needs something more like a medieval crafts guild than the labor union of 1860-1980.

As with medieval guilds , non-members could not officially practise their trade.

What broke the medieval guilds was printing; some one could publish a treatise on how to tan leather.

Had not the medieval burial guilds done precisely the same?

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the writer's guild

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But that debate revealed a wide gulf between the guild of academic historians and the public.

Many Cheyenne women belonged to a housewives' guild , which taught domestic arts and decoration.

Much of this bore the unmistakable stamp of guild thought and policy.

Strictly speaking this information was superfluous; at Coventry it was inserted perhaps with a view to recording guild affiliations.

The guilds worked both for the local market and for distant trade.

The townsmen developed no organizational bases comparable to those of Western cities, no craft guilds or town councils.

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