Definitions for guineas

• Definition
• Anagrams (189)

guineas Guin·ea

Spelling: [gin-ee]

IPA: /ˈgɪn i/

Guineas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 189 anagrams from letters in guineas (aeginsu).

Definitions for guineas

noun

1. a coastal region in W Africa, extending from the Gambia River to the Gabon estuary.
2. Formerly French Guinea. an independent republic in W Africa, on the Atlantic coast. About 96,900 sq. mi. (251,000 sq. km). Capital: Conakry.
3. Gulf of, a part of the Atlantic Ocean that projects into the W coast of Africa and extends from the Ivory Coast to Gabon.
4. (lowercase) a former money of account of the United Kingdom, equal to 21 shillings: still often used in quoting fees or prices.
5. (lowercase) a gold coin of Great Britain issued from 1663 to 1813, with a nominal value of 20 shillings.
6. (lowercase) Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Italian birth or descent.
7. (lowercase) Horse Racing. a person who does miscellaneous work in or around a horse stable.

Examples for guineas

Permit me, I beseech you, before you go to London to send you forty-eight guineas.

I—ha—I did so; and I found that it contained—ahem—two guineas.

I'll give you three guineas each for them, and I'll take six for certain if they're good.

This 1960s dishwasher by Charles Colston Ltd cost 85 guineas.

O the supreme misery of making three guineas do the business of five!

Sends her fifty guineas in the leaves of a Norris's miscellanies.

"But I always understood that she paid fifty guineas for it," said Lady Anne.

Do you know, I've a bet of twenty guineas on your head—on your face, I mean.

She wanted to borrow thirty guineas of me: only while she got a note changed.

In Three guineas, Virginia Woolf wrote, “As a woman my country is the whole world.”