"guinea" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɡɪni/ Audio: En-au-guinea.ogg Forms: guineas [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪni Etymology: From Guinea, the early modern name for West Africa, the coins originally being made of gold from the region, mostly from the 'Gold Coast' (modern Ghana) and used for African trade, and the guinea fowl being found there. Head templates: {{en-noun}} guinea (plural guineas)
  1. (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. Tags: British, historical Categories (topical): Coins Translations (coin worth 21 shillings): جُنَيْه (junayh) [masculine] (Arabic), гвинея (gvineja) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 堅尼 (Chinese Mandarin), 坚尼 (jiānní) (Chinese Mandarin), guinea (Finnish), guinée [feminine] (French), Guinee [feminine] (German), गिनी (ginī) [masculine] (Hindi), gine [masculine] (Irish), ghinea [feminine] (Italian), ギニー (ginī) (Japanese), 기니 (gini) (Korean), kini (Maori), gwinea [feminine] (Polish), guinéu [masculine] (Portuguese), гине́я (ginéja) [feminine] (Russian), gini [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), guinea [feminine] (Spanish), gini [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-guinea-en-noun-z1Krrb4A Disambiguation of Coins: 67 8 25 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 12 44 Disambiguation of 'coin worth 21 shillings': 94 1 4
  2. Synonym of guinea fowl Synonyms: guinea fowl [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-guinea-en-noun--rohbaaj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 12 44
  3. (US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent. Tags: US, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur Categories (lifeform): Fowls Synonyms (person of Italian descent): dago, Eyetie, goombah, greaseball, guido, wog, wop
    Sense id: en-guinea-en-noun-vXz4xx1j Disambiguation of Fowls: 25 31 44 Categories (other): American English, English ethnic slurs, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 12 44 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 28 20 52 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 23 18 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 23 17 60 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 22 18 60 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 26 20 54 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 27 22 51 Disambiguation of Terms with Hindi translations: 24 21 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 19 14 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 13 12 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 27 23 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 21 17 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 30 20 51 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 22 17 61 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 22 17 61 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 19 14 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 27 23 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations: 22 16 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 27 22 52 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 27 21 52 Disambiguation of 'person of Italian descent': 1 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "word": "guinea-worm"
    },
    {
      "word": "helmeted guinea fowl"
    },
    {
      "word": "long-eared guinea pig"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ar",
            "2": "جُنَيْه",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Arabic: جُنَيْه (junayh)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Arabic: جُنَيْه (junayh)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "arz",
            "2": "جنيه",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "ginēh"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Egyptian Arabic: جنيه (ginēh)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Egyptian Arabic: جنيه (ginēh)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "gine",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Irish: gine",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Irish: gine"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gd",
            "2": "gini",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Scottish Gaelic: gini",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Scottish Gaelic: gini"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "guinea",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: guinea",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: guinea"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cy",
            "2": "gini",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Welsh: gini",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Welsh: gini"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Guinea, the early modern name for West Africa, the coins originally being made of gold from the region, mostly from the 'Gold Coast' (modern Ghana) and used for African trade, and the guinea fowl being found there.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "guineas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "guinea (plural guineas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:",
          "text": "English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck—nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962 June, “New Reading on Railways: Locomotives of British Railways, by H. C. Casserley & L. Asher, Spring Books, 21s.”, in Modern Railways, page 432:",
          "text": "However, since there are 488 pages in all for a bargain price of a guinea one must not be too carping.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shillings",
          "shillings"
        ],
        [
          "decimal",
          "decimal"
        ],
        [
          "currency",
          "currency"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "historical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1944, Emily Carr, “Brooding and Homing”, in The House of All Sorts:",
          "text": "The guineas peeped complainingly, the goslings waddled into all the puddles and came back to chill my skin.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of guinea fowl"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "guinea fowl",
          "guinea fowl#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "guinea fowl"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English ethnic slurs",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, Stephen King, Survivor Type:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person of Italian descent."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "ethnic",
          "ethnic"
        ],
        [
          "slur",
          "slur"
        ],
        [
          "Italian",
          "Italian"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "derogatory",
        "ethnic",
        "slang",
        "slur"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɪni/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-guinea.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4c/En-au-guinea.ogg/En-au-guinea.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/En-au-guinea.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪni"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "person of Italian descent",
      "word": "dago"
    },
    {
      "sense": "person of Italian descent",
      "word": "Eyetie"
    },
    {
      "sense": "person of Italian descent",
      "word": "goombah"
    },
    {
      "sense": "person of Italian descent",
      "word": "greaseball"
    },
    {
      "sense": "person of Italian descent",
      "word": "guido"
    },
    {
      "sense": "person of Italian descent",
      "word": "wog"
    },
    {
      "sense": "person of Italian descent",
      "word": "wop"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "junayh",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "جُنَيْه"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "gvineja",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гвинея"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "word": "堅尼"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiānní",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "word": "坚尼"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "word": "guinea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "guinée"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Guinee"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "ginī",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "गिनी"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gine"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ghinea"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ginī",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "word": "ギニー"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gini",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "word": "기니"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "word": "kini"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gwinea"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "guinéu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ginéja",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гине́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gini"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "guinea"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "coin worth 21 shillings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gini"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Guinea (coin)",
    "Guinea (disambiguation)"
  ],
  "word": "guinea"
}

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