GUIANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Guiana mean? 

• GUIANA (noun)
  The noun GUIANA has 1 sense:

1. a geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam

  Familiarity information: GUIANA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUIANA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Guiana"):

British Guiana; Co-operative Republic of Guyana; Guyana (a republic in northeastern South America; formerly part of the British Empire, but it achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966)

Dutch Guiana; Netherlands Guiana; Republic of Suriname; Surinam; Suriname (a republic in northeastern South America on the Atlantic; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1975)

Holonyms ("Guiana" is a part of...):

South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)

 Context examples 

Launched from Kourou Space Center in French Guiana, the satellite was undergoing adjustments and orbital testing under the supervision of Armed Forces military personnel and engineers from the equipment manufacturer, France-based Thales Alenia Space.

(First Brazilian satellite starts operations, Agência Brasil)