Other forms: guineas
Guinea is a country on the west coast of Africa, with Conakry as its capital. In Guinea, the Guinea coast, from Guinea.
It is always capitalised. It holds some of the world's largest reserves of bauxite, the ore aluminium is made from, and the Niger river rises there. It is distinct from Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea, which are separate countries, and from Papua New Guinea, which is in the Pacific and was named by a Spanish explorer who thought the people resembled those of the African coast. Note guinea pig, which comes from neither.
1nounguineaA country on the west coast of Africa.
“Guinea holds about a quarter of the world's known bauxite.”
guinea is a country.
From Guinea, the early modern name for West Africa, the coins originally being made of gold from the region, mostly from the 'Gold Coast' (modern Ghana) and used for African trade, and the guinea fowl being found there. Its use as an ethnic slur against Italians may be due to their darker complexion compared to people of Anglo-American descent.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA