guinea — meaning in English
Spanish → English · translate English → Spanish instead
English meaning
- guinea noun An old British gold coin, later valued at twenty-one shillings, used before decimal currency.
Senses
guinea is used for these senses in English:
- Guinea (historical) The coastal region of West Africa between Morocco and the Congo, particularly the north shore of the Gulf of Guinea.
- guinea (British, historical) A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings.
guinea — full definition
- noun An old British gold coin, later valued at twenty-one shillings, used before decimal currency.
- noun Short for guinea fowl, a spotted African bird kept for its meat and eggs.