guinea

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim The coastal region of West Africa between Morocco and the Congo, particularly the north shore of the Gulf of Guinea.
2. özel isim A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Guinea.
3. özel isim Alternative letter-case form of guinea, an Italian.
4. isim A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings.

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

5. isim Synonym of guinea fowl.

   “The guineas peeped complainingly, the goslings waddled into all the puddles and came back to chill my skin.”

6. isim A person of Italian descent.

   “If I’m to tell the whole truth—and why not? I sure have the time!—I’ll have to start by saying I was born Richard Pinzetti, in New York’s Little Italy. My father was an Old World guinea.”