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Princeton's WordNet

  1. boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampumnoun

    informal terms for money

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Geltnoun

    A castrated animal; gelding.

    Etymology: from geld.

    The spayed gelts they esteem the most profitable John Mortimer.

  2. Geltnoun

    Tinsel; gilt surface.

    Etymology: corrupted for the sake of rhyme from gilt.

    I won her with a girdle of gelt,
    Embost with bugle about the belt. Edmund Spenser, Pastorals.

  3. Geltthe participle passive of geld.

    Let the others be gelt for oxen. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

ChatGPT

  1. gelt

    Gelt is a term originating from Yiddish and it typically refers to money or cash. However, it is popularly known as the chocolate coins given to children as part of the Hanukkah tradition, known as "Hanukkah gelt".

Webster Dictionary

  1. Geltnoun

    trubute, tax

  2. Geltverb

    a gelding

  3. Geltnoun

    gilding; tinsel

  4. Etymology: [See Gelt, v. t.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Gelt

    gelt, pa.t. and pa.p. of geld.

  2. Gelt

    gelt, n. (Spens.). Same as Gilt.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of gelt in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of gelt in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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