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Guyanese

Guyanese

1 5.3
A person from Guyana
  • noun
  • /ˌɡaɪəˈniːz/
: guyanes
  • In the city, I met several Guyanese who were eager to discuss their country's history.

Examples

  • I did not yet understand why this family, which looked Afro-Guyanese, spoke in pejorative terms about Indo-Guyanese and could only refer to my maternal great-great-grandmother as "Lady Buck."

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  • So there are no Guyanese researchers.

  • At their first press conference, the Americans claimed that the Guyanese could not count.

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  • They did this alongside genuine efforts to mobilize and reorganize labor and the historical relationship to work of Guyanese under colonialism, such as those of my great-uncle, the late Gordon Todd.

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  • Many Guyanese celebrate their independence day with parades and cultural events.

  • The community center offers activities that help Guyanese locals connect and share their traditions.

Synonyms

Guianan
vsGuyanese
7.6

A person from Guiana in northern South America

refers to someone from one specific country rather than the larger region

Surface Forms

Guyanese singular
Guyanese plural

Morphology

Guyanese = Guyana (transparent) = Guyana + ese

A regular demonym formed by adding the productive suffix '-ese' to the country name 'Guyana', meaning 'from or of Guyana'.

Etymology

Guyanese comes from the country name Guyana and the ending -ese, which means 'from' a place, like in Chinese or Japanese. So a Guyanese is a person 'from Guyana'.