From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishguildguild /ɡɪld/ noun [countable] SSOan organization of people who do the same job or have the same interests the Women’s Guild
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guild• The townsmen developed no organizational bases comparable to those of Western cities, no craft guilds or town councils.• 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 writer's guild• But that debate revealed a wide gulf between the guild of academic historians and the public.• The guilds worked both for the local market and for distant trade.Origin guild (1300-1400) Old Norse gildi “payment, guild” 