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  • proper noun historical A former name of Suriname.

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

  • noun a republic in northeastern South America on the Atlantic; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1975

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Examples

  • Matzeliger was born in Dutch Guiana, South America, of a Dutch father and a Negro mother.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • Matzeliger was born in Dutch Guiana, South America, of a Dutch father and a Negro mother.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • Matzeliger was born in Dutch Guiana, South America, of a Dutch father and a Negro mother.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • Curacco, what we now call Dutch Guiana, in South America.

    Colonial Children 1902

  • As of that day, Dutch Guiana was under American protection.

    Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

  • There are mountains, flowers, wine, and guitars, if not Gypsies, and because that country used to be Dutch Guiana, the people speak Dutch.

    Discovering the Dutch Mountains Slavitt, David R. 2008

  • Surinameconventional long form: Republic of Suriname conventional short form: Suriname local long form: Republiek Suriname local short form: Suriname former: Netherlands Guiana, Dutch Guiana

    Country name 2008

  • Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 89.6% male: 92% female: 87.2% (2004 census) GovernmentCountry name: conventional long form: Republic of Suriname conventional short form: Suriname local long form: Republiek Suriname local short form: Suriname former: Netherlands Guiana, Dutch Guiana

    Suriname 2008

  • British or Dutch Guiana, would be reached; and so on, and on, by slow or swift stages, with little to eat perhaps, with much labour and pain, in hot sun and in storm, to the Atlantic at last, and towns inhabited by Christian men.

    Green Mansions 2004

  • We are now 800 miles from the coast of Paramaribo, the nearest portion of Dutch Guiana, and in ten or twelve days, if the weather should be favourable, I believe we could reach the shore.

    The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

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