What is another word for guilds?

Pronunciation: [ɡˈɪldz] (IPA)

Guilds are organizations that have been in existence since the Middle Ages. They are associations of people with a common interest or purpose, typically related to a specific trade or profession. Synonyms for guilds include associations, societies, leagues, fraternities, brotherhoods, sisterhoods, unions, consortia, coalitions, and fellowships. These terms all describe groups of individuals who have joined together to achieve a common goal, whether it be to advocate for their profession, develop their skills, or provide mutual support. No matter the name, guilds remain an important part of modern society, actively contributing to the success of various industries and professions.

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Usage examples for Guilds

He acknowledges that the old system of guilds had its advantages; it was a kind of assured understanding between the workman and society, according to which the former adjusted his work and the latter his wages.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Previous to being Mayor he had been an eminent personage as master of the guilds.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
They never confessed their experiences one to another in the fervent spiritual manner, but had clubs and guilds and societies to train the working-people.
"In Wild Rose Time"
Amanda M. Douglas

Famous quotes with Guilds

  • I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.
    Griffin Dunne
  • I do preach the idea of individualism as in not adapting any kind of style or model other than that one of your own. I always found it strange in art history when studying about the different guilds and movements. It sounded too contrived and having to follow devised parameters to create art. I personally am not a team player in that manner. The art should be labeled by the artist's name only.
    Adamo Macri
  • All anyone’s got is theories, usually distorted by what they’ve been through or what they want. This book, for example, was written by someone from a suburban, broken home, raised in Thatcher’s Britain, where inclusive ideas and family values were dismantled. A culture in which fame and celebrity became deified and drug use among the young extremely prevalent. Where modern manifestations of tribal identity like trade unions or guilds became redundant, manufacturing industries disappeared, neoliberalism emerged, and the welfare state was all but abolished. You could probably predict the contents of this book by looking at my weekly shopping receipt from Tesco’s. Alright, Waitrose. I’m dying to paint myself as a lowborn, Wat Tyler, Essex messiah; fortunately, I’m not quite that mad. I know that that heroic myth is part of my programming. That I’m quite a funny, normal bloke, that there’s a bit of bad in the best of us and a bit of good in the worst of us, that any centralized power structure with an egocentric figure at its helm will become corrupt.
    Russell Brand
  • Wherever big industries displaced manufacture, the bourgeoisie developed in wealth and power to the utmost and made itself the first class of the country. The result was that wherever this happened, the bourgeoisie took political power into its own hands and displaced the hitherto ruling classes, the aristocracy, the guildmasters, and their representative, the absolute monarchy. The bourgeoisie annihilated the power of the aristocracy, the nobility, by abolishing the entailment of estates – in other words, by making landed property subject to purchase and sale, and by doing away with the special privileges of the nobility. It destroyed the power of the guildmasters by abolishing guilds and handicraft privileges. In their place, it put competition – that is, a state of society in which everyone has the right to enter into any branch of industry, the only obstacle being a lack of the necessary capital.
    Friedrich Engels
  • The priestly guilds were highly mobile, with the result that cultic practices crossed ethnic lines over wide areas.
    Cyrus H. Gordon

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