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单词 guianian
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Guianiann.adj.

Brit. /ɡʌɪˈɑːnɪən/, /ɡɪˈɑːnɪən/, /ɡʌɪˈanɪən/, U.S. /ɡiˈæniən/, /ɡiˈɑniən/, /ɡaɪˈæniən/, Caribbean English /ɡaiˈanian/, /ɡaiˈaniʌn/
Forms: 1500s– Guianian, 1600s 1800s– Guyanian.
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Guiana , Guyana , -ian suffix.
Etymology: < the name of Guiana, Guyana (see Guyanese n.) + -ian suffix.
A. n.
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; (also) a descendant of people from these countries; = Guyanese n. 1.Less common than either Guyanese or Guyanan.
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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
1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 32 The poore Guianian betraied of all sides was deliuered to the Campemaster of Berreo.
1632 Publ. Guiana's Plantation Newly Undertaken 8 The roote called Cassavie, of which the Guianians make their bread.
1847 Liberator (Boston) 10 Dec. 198/3 These moderate Guianians ‘will accept the immediate emancipation of their slaves’ on the following reasonable terms.
1918 Proc. U.S. National Museum 54 264 American examples may be cited from the Pimas..and other southern tribes, Mexicans, Central Americans, Guianians, Peruvians, etc.
1998 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 15 June 29 Even today the Jamaicans, Trinidadians and Guyanians can still be found living and working together in large numbers in the inner cities.
B. adj.
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.Less common than either Guyanese or Guyanan.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > Central and South America > [adjective] > South America > specific parts > Guyana
Guyanan1715
Guyanese1760
Guianian1883
1596 G. C. in L. Keymis Relation 2nd Voy. Guiana sig. A3v In haste, as if Guianian Orenoque With his Fell waters fell vpon our shore.
1740 W. Oldys Life Sir W. Ralegh 225 Before they could receive any Lustre from the Guianian Discoveries.
1829 Southern Rev. Nov. 448 The jealousy of his rivals would not admit that even this gold was Guianian; and they charged him with purchasing it on the African coast.
1847 Liberator (Boston) 10 Dec. 198/3 We believe that Louis Phillippe has his eye-teeth cut sufficiently not to allow himself to be bitten, himself, as his Guianian lieges seem inclined for.
1883 H. V. P. Bronkhurst Col. of Brit. Guyana p. vii My numerous English and West Indian or Guyanian friends.
1985 Financial Times 18 Oct. 5/1 Someone who definitely does not have a jaundiced view of the Commonwealth, is Sir Sonny Ramphal, the Guyanian Secretary-General of the Organisation.
2015 Systematic Biol. 64 515/1 The Guianian races [of the species Heliconius erato] form a fully supported clade in the monophyletic group of taxa from East of the Andes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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