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.

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  • 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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From Guyana +‎ -ese

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Examples

  • "Then there are the Afro-Guyanese, which is the second largest grouping, and then there are the Portuguese.

    Cayman Net News Daily Headlines 2008

  • 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

  • My Guyanese grandmother changed my life forever because when she saw what needed doing, she took charge.

    Portrait in Blue, by Gabriel Nicolet, 1856-1921 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Balloon Juice » 2009 » March 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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