Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • The capital and largest city of Guinea, in the southwest part of the country on the Atlantic Ocean. The oldest part of the city is on an island connected with the mainland by causeway.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun (Geography) The capital city of Guinea. Population (2000) = 1,508,000.

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  • proper noun The capital of Guinea.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a port and the capital of Guinea

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Examples

  • CONAKRY: Trading resumed for shops that were spared a weekend looting spree in Guinea's capital Conakry and hospital sources said an army mutiny had claimed some 50 lives and left 100 people injured.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • CONAKRY - Campaigning begins for Guinea's first multi-party election but there are few signs of election fever in the traffic - choked streets of Conakry.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • CONAKRY (Reuters) - Police deployed extra forces around Guinea's capital Conakry on Monday after street fighting between supporters of rivals for its presidential election left one dead and 50 injured over the weekend.

    Yahoo! News: World News 2010

  • CONAKRY (Reuters) - Police deployed extra forces around Guinea's capital Conakry on Monday after street fighting between supporters of rivals for its presidential election left one dead and 50 injured over the weekend.

    Reuters: World News 2010

  • CONAKRY (Reuters) - Police deployed extra forces around Guinea's capital Conakry on Monday after street fighting between supporters of rivals for its presidential election left one dead and 50 injured over the weekend.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • CONAKRY (Reuters) - Police deployed extra forces around Guinea's capital Conakry on Monday after street fighting between supporters of rivals for its presidential election left one dead and 50 injured over the weekend.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • CONAKRY (Reuters) - Police deployed extra forces around Guinea's capital Conakry on Monday after street fighting between supporters of rivals for its presidential election left one dead and 50 injured over the weekend.

    Reuters: Top News 2010

  • CONAKRY (Reuters) - Police deployed extra forces around Guinea's capital Conakry on Monday after street fighting between supporters of rivals for its presidential election left one dead and 50 injured over the weekend.

    Yahoo!7 News - World 2010

  • CONAKRY (Reuters) - Police deployed extra forces around Guinea's capital Conakry on Monday after street fighting between supporters of rivals for its presidential election left one dead and 50 injured over the weekend.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • CONAKRY (Reuters) - Police deployed extra forces around Guinea's capital Conakry on Monday after street fighting between supporters of rivals for its presidential election left one dead and 50 injured over the weekend.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

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