GUINEA meaning: Currency formerly used in Britain

We found 38 dictionaries that define the word guinea:

General (29 matching dictionaries)

Guinea, guinea: Merriam-Webster
Guinea, guinea: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
Guinea, guinea: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
guinea: Collins English Dictionary
Guinea, guinea: Vocabulary.com
guinea: Wordnik
guinea: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Guinea, guinea: Wiktionary
guinea: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
Guinea, guinea: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
Guinea: Infoplease Dictionary
Guinea: Dictionary.com
guinea: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Guinea (Bissau), Guinea (British coin), Guinea (coin), Guinea (disambiguation), Guinea (money), Guinea (region), Guinea: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Guinea: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
guinea: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
Guinea: Rhymezone
Guinea: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
guinea: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Guinea: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
guinea: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
Guinea: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
guinea: FreeDictionary.org
guinea: Mnemonic Dictionary
Guinea: TheFreeDictionary.com
guinea: Online Etymology Dictionary
guinea: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

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guinea: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

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guinea: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

guinea: Wordcraft Dictionary
guinea: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

guinea, guinea, guinea, Guinea, Guinea: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
guinea: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ 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.

Opposite:

congo

Types:

guinefowl, peacock, pigeon, dove, chicken, turkey, quail, duck, more...

Phrases:

New Guinea, guinea pig, guinea pigs, Equatorial Guinea, guinea fowl, more...

Adjectives:

half, new, eastern, western, northern, southern, last, central, worth, golden, single

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