Guyananadj.n.
/ɡʌɪˈɑːnən/, /ɡɪˈɑːnən/, /ɡʌɪˈanən/, U.S. /ɡiˈænən/, /ɡiˈɑnən/, /ɡaɪˈænən/, Caribbean English /ɡaiˈanan/, /ɡaiˈanʌn/ A. adj.
1. Of, belonging to, or relating to a region in northern South America bounded by the Orinoco, Negro, and Amazon rivers and the Atlantic Ocean, or any or all of the countries situated in parts of this region and taking their name from it, esp. Guyana (formerly British Guiana) or the Guianas (the region comprising Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana); = Guyanese adj. 1.The form Guyanan is now preferred when referring to Guyana (although much less common than Guyanese), whereas Guianan remains common in other applications.
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Guyanan1715
Guyanese1760
Guianian1883
1715 E. Barlow Meteorol. Ess. ii. ii. 51 They lie shut up by Land,..as the Atlantick is by the Brasilian and Guianan Coasts, towards the South.
1869 Ibis 5 117 The familiar forms of the Guianan fauna.
1920 Illustr. World Mar. 163/1 He can transfer his baggage to a huge hydro-airplane for a flight across the Gulf of Mexico to a Venezuelan or Guianan port.
1966 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 July 676/2 Mr. Dathorne, himself a Guyanan novelist and now a lecturer in English at a Nigerian university, deals with the question in his discerning introduction.
2002 New Scientist 15 June 32/1 The feathers of the male Guianan cock-of-the-rock, which are brilliant orange in sunshine, fade into invisibility in forest shade.
2. Chiefly in the form Guianan. With preceding modifying word, with the sense ‘of, belonging to, or relating to British, Dutch, or French Guiana; of, belonging to, or relating to the British, Dutch, or French Guianese’; = Guyanese adj. 2.Now historical when referring to British Guiana (now Guyana) or Dutch Guiana (now Suriname).French Guianese is preferred to French Guianan in modern use.
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1866 Gardeners' Chron. 19 May 457/2 Specimens of Australian, West Indian, British Guianan, and North American timber.
1913 Harper's Mag. June 15/2 Trails through certain parts of Dutch Guianan wilderness have been secretly mapped out by generations of deportés.
2003 Alauda 71 60/1 19 species of French Guianan birds, one of which was not previously recorded in French Guiana.
B. n.
1. A native or inhabitant of a region in northern South America bounded by the Orinoco, Negro, and Amazon rivers and the Atlantic Ocean, or any or all of the countries situated in parts of this region and taking their name from it, esp. Guyana (formerly British Guiana) or the Guianas; (also) a descendant of people from these countries; = Guyanese n. 1.The form Guyanan is now preferred when referring to Guyana (although much less common than Guyanese), whereas Guianan remains common in other applications.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of South America > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Guiana
Guianian1596
Guyanese1760
Guyanan1870
1870 J. G. Wood Uncivilized Races Men I. p. vi (list of illustrations) Bead apron of the Guianans.
1892 Med. Missionary Rec. June 115/2 The Guianans pay but scant attention to women in child-birth.
1904 J. W. Buel Louisiana & Fair V. lxxxix. 1859 The wourali poison in which the Guianans dip their arrows is instantaneous in its effect.
1965 New Statesman 26 Nov. 814/1 If UDI had been proclaimed by Adenis or Guyanans, can anyone deny we would have sent in troops immediately?
2005 J. Skinner in B. W. Shaffer Compan. Brit. & Irish Novel ix. 133 A Guyanan of mixed ancestry and a trained surveyor, Harris emigrated to Britain in 1959 and has lived there ever since.
2. Chiefly in the form Guianan. With preceding modifying word, denoting a native or inhabitant of British Guiana, Dutch Guiana, or French Guiana, or a descendant of people from these countries; = Guyanese n. 2.Now historical when referring to British Guiana (now Guyana) or Dutch Guiana (now Suriname).French Guianese is preferred to French Guianan in modern use. See Guyanese n. 2.
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1891 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye 19 Mar. 2/2 The British Guianans find their best interest will be served by treating with the United States instead of Canada.
1929 N.Y. Times 23 Oct. 60/3 There are six Russians, five West Indians, three Dutch Guianans, two Italians and one person each from the Philippines, Virgin Islands, Spain, Florida and Louisiana among the twenty-one supervised lepers.
2002 D. Hoerder Cultures in Contact xix. 528 A destination for French Antilleans and French Guianans in the late 1950s.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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