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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A serving of the beverage.

   "Three Guinnesses please, barman."

2. 2
   a kind of bitter stout wordnet

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A surname from Irish. countable
2. 2
   A brand of dark stout beer from Ireland, one of the most widely recognised brands of beer in the world, named for Arthur Guinness who first brewed it. uncountable
3. 3
   Guinness World Records.

Synonyms

All synonyms

liffey watersir alec guinnessvitamin g

Example

More examples

"You could get into the Guinness Book of World Records as the heaviest drinker."

Etymology

An Anglicization of an Irish patronymic surname based on Angus.

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