guinea

/หˆษกษชni/

IPA: /G IH1 N IY0/

noun
  1. 1

    A person of Italian descent.

  2. 2

    A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings.

noun
  1. 1

    Any of several African birds of the family Numididae (6 species) resembling partridges.

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