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GUIANA
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I. (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)
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