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say it: YUR-uh-gway
uruguay is a noun meaning "a South American republic on the southeast coast of South America; achieved independence from Brazil in 1825". It is pronounced /ˈjɝəˌɡweɪ/ — YUR-uh-gway. It carries one recorded sense.
a South American republic on the southeast coast of South America; achieved independence from Brazil in 1825
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for uruguay come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.