british guiana

Questions about british guiana

What does british guiana mean?

british guiana means "a republic in northeastern South America; formerly part of the British Empire, but it achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966".

What is another word for british guiana?

Close synonyms include Guyana, Co-operative Republic of Guyana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is british guiana a common word?

british guiana is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.