STABROEK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Stabroek mean? 

• STABROEK (noun)
  The noun STABROEK has 1 sense:

1. port city and the capital and largest city of Guyana

  Familiarity information: STABROEK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STABROEK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Port city and the capital and largest city of Guyana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Georgetown; Stabroek

Context example:

the city was called Stabroek by the Dutch but was renamed Georgetown by the British in 1812

Instance hypernyms:

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Holonyms ("Stabroek" is a part of...):

British Guiana; Co-operative Republic of Guyana; Guyana (a republic in northeastern South America; formerly part of the British Empire, but it achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966)