Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A region of northeast South America including southeast Venezuela, part of northern Brazil, and French Guiana, Suriname, and Guyana.

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  • proper noun A geological region in the north of South America.

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  • noun a geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam

Etymologies

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From the local language, meaning “land of many waters”.

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Examples

  • The year before he had sailed to Guiana, in search of the fabled El Dorado, destroying on the way the Spanish town of San José, in the West Indies; and on his return he published his _Discovery of the Empire of Guiana_.

    From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

  • Guyana, formerly known as British Guiana, is located on the north-east coast of South America.

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  • Whether we eat meat or dairy or neither, whether we take time to help needy in Guiana or just a needy friend, whether we sacrifice for animals or for strangers or simply for our own family, all choices are legitimate and all lives valid.

    Vegan Envy 2009

  • These ducks are found wild in Guiana, where they nestle on the trunks of trees close to the water's edge.

    The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845

  • Guiana -- Joel Barre, the head of Europe's tropical spaceport in French Guiana, is relaxed about letting a former Cold

    WN.com - Articles related to NASA mission prepares for study of Arctic glaciers 2010

  • The state-of-the-art communications satellite - W2M - built by the Indian Space Research organization on a commercial basis in partnership with EADS-Astrium of Europe was launched from the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou in French Guiana,

    unknown title 2009

  • The site of a ground station for Galileo, Europe's global navigation satellite system, inside the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), near Kourou in French Guiana, was inaugurated on 19 November 2009.

    Space Business and Industry News at SpaceMart.com 2009

  • The site of a ground station for Galileo, Europe's global navigation satellite system, inside the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), near Kourou in French Guiana, was inaugurated on 19 November.

    Space Business and Industry News at SpaceMart.com 2009

  • The state-of-the-art communications satellite - W2M - built by the Indian Space Research organization on a commercial basis in partnership with EADS-Astrium of Europe was launched from the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou in French Guiana,

    unknown title 2009

  • The state-of-the-art communications satellite - W2M - built by the Indian Space Research organization on a commercial basis in partnership with EADS-Astrium of Europe was launched from the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou in French Guiana,

    unknown title 2009

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