Guyana
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- proper noun
- /ɡaɪˈænə/
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Guyana
- In addition, Guyana's neighbors in South America all speak a language other than English.
- Guyana is a country
- Guyana and Suriname
- Guyana and Venezuela
The way we treat mental health in America, in England, in Guyana, in India, everywhere.
- The way we treat mental health in America, in England, in Guyana, in India, everywhere.
- The authorities were coming from Georgetown in Guyana for him.
- They are now from, you know, the bottom of Bolivia to Guyana.
- I had a steady girlfriend who was a citizen of Guyana.
- Standard childhood or well, if you know Guyana, so Guyana is the tippy top corner of South America, right beside Brazil.
- And then all of a sudden people are in Guyana and drinking Flavor Aid with Jim Jones and it's like, what happened?
- By the way, you know, the next one is Xi Jinping is backing the dictator in Venezuela, Maduro, to threaten his small neighbor Guyana.
- So as a young boy growing up in Guyana, I aspired to be with Richards and Michael Holden and all those guys at the time who we all looked up to.
- Now is the war in the Middle East, Venezuela and Guyana, some East Asia war is is is back on the table.
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The official language is English, making Guyana the only English-speaking country in South America.
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The last time the OIG visited the US Embassy in Guyana was in 2008.
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The way we treat mental health in America, in England, in Guyana, in India, everywhere.
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His article, "The Black Hole of Guyana," written in 1985, can still be found on the Internet here.
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Other countries are starting, Indonesia is doing it, Guyana is doing it, Brazil is starting to do it.
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Born in Guyana, he was a lithe, tall man with mocha skin and green eyes.
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Linden is the second largest town in Guyana after Georgetown, and the capital of the Upper Demerara-Berbice region.
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So as a young boy growing up in Guyana, I aspired to be with Richards and Michael Holden and all those guys at the time who we all looked up to.
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Jonestown was a failed multicultural utopia of U.S. citizens who relocated to Guyana in the late 1970s.
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Guyana could add value to its timber exports, and Cameroon could diversify its cocoa-based products.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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A former British colony in the north of South America now called Guyana
A country in northeastern South America that became independent from the United Kingdom in 1966
Compounds
A country in northeastern South America that became independent from the United Kingdom in 1966
Surface Forms
Etymology
Guyana comes from a local native word often written Guiana, which is thought to mean 'land of many waters'. Early explorers used this name for the region with many rivers, and that's why the country is called Guyana today.