guinea

guinea

1. vanha Ison-Britannian rahayksikkö, alun perin 20 šillingin kultaraha joka tarkoitettiin Afrikan kauppaan; vuodesta 1717 arvoksi standardoitiin 21 šillinkiä (eli 1 punta ja 1 šillinki).

Synonyymisanakirja

guinea

Guinea, Guinean tasavalta, Ranskan Guinea.

Rimmaavat sanat

guinea rimmaa näiden kanssa:

matinea, lausuntamatinea...

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Englannin sanakirja

guinea (englanti > suomi)

1. guinea

guinea englanniksi

1. puhekieltä A person of Italian descent.

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 puhekieltä A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings and originally made from gold imported from Africa; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings.

3. 1883: w:Robert Louis Stevenson|Robert Louis Stevenson, w:Treasure Island|Treasure Island

English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spiders web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck—nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection...''

4. A ground-forage foraging bird of Africa, of the family Numididae. Domesticated strains include Pearl, White, Buff, Blue, Purple and Lavender. Also called guinea fowl.

5. 1944, (w), (w), “Brooding and Homing,” ^{http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100121h.html}

The guineas peeped complainingly, the goslings waddled into all the puddles and came back to chill my skin.

6. English guinea (gloss)

Käännökset

ranska
guinée (f)

venäjä
гине́я (f)