guinea

Pluralguineas

1. 1
   countryproper noun · Guinea

   A country in West Africa. Its full name is the Republic of Guinea.

   My teacher grew up in Guinea and speaks French at home.

   We found Guinea on the map of Africa, right next to the ocean.

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   gold coinnounhistoricalBritishcountable

   An old British gold coin, first worth twenty shillings and later worth twenty-one.

   The museum has a shiny gold guinea from the time of King George.

   However, since there are 488 pages in all for a bargain price of a guinea one must not be too carping.

   1962, “New Reading on Railways: Locomotives of British Railways, by H. C. Casserley & L. Asher, Spring Books, 21s.”, in Modern RailwaysHere, guinea means an old British coin worth twenty-one shillings.

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   farm birdnouncountable

   A bird called a guinea fowl, found in West Africa and kept on farms.

   Our guineas run around the yard and eat bugs.

   One guinea flew up onto the barn roof and would not come down.

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   coast regionproper noun · Guineahistorical

   The coast of West Africa between Morocco and the Congo, as people named it in the past.

   Long ago, sailors traded for gold along the coast of Guinea.

   The old map shows Guinea as one long stretch of African coast.

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   ethnic insultnounslangderogatoryethnicslurUScountable

   A very rude and hurtful word, used in the US, for a person whose family came from Italy.

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