Usually means: Currency formerly used in Britain.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word GUINEA:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Guinea, guinea: Merriam-Webster
  2. Guinea, guinea: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Guinea, guinea: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. guinea: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Guinea, guinea: Vocabulary.com
  6. guinea: Wordnik
  7. guinea: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Guinea, guinea: Wiktionary
  9. guinea: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Guinea, guinea: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Guinea: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Guinea: Dictionary.com
  13. guinea: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Guinea (Bissau), Guinea (British coin), Guinea (coin), Guinea (disambiguation), Guinea (money), Guinea (region), Guinea: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Guinea: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. guinea: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Guinea: Rhymezone
  18. Guinea: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. guinea: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Guinea: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. guinea: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Guinea: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. guinea: FreeDictionary.org
  24. guinea: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Guinea: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. guinea: Online Etymology Dictionary
  27. guinea: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. guinea: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. guinea: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. guinea: Wordcraft Dictionary
  2. guinea: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. guinea, guinea, guinea, Guinea, Guinea: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. guinea: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See guineas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Guinea)

noun:  (historical) The coastal region of West Africa between Morocco and the Congo, particularly the north shore of the Gulf of Guinea.
noun:  A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Guinea.
noun:  (derogatory US slang, ethnic slur) Someone of Italian descent in the United States.
noun:  (British, historical) A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings.
noun:  Synonym of guinea fowl
noun:  (US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.

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