Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to Guyana.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Guyana.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Guyana.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person from
Guyana or of Guyanese descent. - adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Guyana, the Guyanese people or the Guyanese language.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Guyana or its inhabitants
- noun a native or inhabitant of Guyana
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Then there are the Afro-Guyanese, which is the second largest grouping, and then there are the Portuguese.
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Elaborating further, the veteran politician added that Chávez's aggressive behavior could pose a threat to a Brazilian road which stretched from the jungle city of Manaus all the way to the Guyanese border.
Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Washington and Brasilia Monitoring Chávez in the Caribbean Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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My Guyanese grandmother changed my life forever because when she saw what needed doing, she took charge.
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Abdel Nur, a Guyanese citizen, pleaded guilty shortly before trial to providing support for the plot.
Cargo Worker Sentenced to Life in Prison in JFK Bomb Plot Chad Bray 2011
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It was a recipe for a Guyanese sweet bread with a bright-pink coconut, cinnamon and fruit filling called Salara, and can apparently be described as having a "unique half bread, half cake sumptuous taste".
Rants Can Be Productive! Sarah 2009
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Unless I'm at McD's, I never eat ketchup in its pure form and always kick it up by adding whatever chili sauces I have at hand - be it Rooster Sriracha or sweet chili or homemade Guyanese pepper sauce.
Chipotle ketchup changes everything | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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Born Janet Rosenberg in 1920, she was a student nurse at Cook County Hospital in Chicago when she met Cheddi Jagan, a dentistry student at Northwestern University and the eldest of 11 children of an Indo-Guyanese family of sugar cane workers.
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Elaborating further, the veteran politician added that Chávez's aggressive behavior could pose a threat to a Brazilian road which stretched from the jungle city of Manaus all the way to the Guyanese border.
Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Washington and Brasilia Monitoring Chávez in the Caribbean Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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And when the narrator falls in love with a Guyanese woman, he finds himself promising her material comforts and a commitment that he knows he can't provide, reprising the ageless deceptions of colonizers to win her over.
Cheeshahteaumauk, Class of '65 (1665) Sam Sacks 2011
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It was a recipe for a Guyanese sweet bread with a bright-pink coconut, cinnamon and fruit filling called Salara, and can apparently be described as having a "unique half bread, half cake sumptuous taste".
Archive 2009-02-01 Sarah 2009
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