Berbice

[ bur-bees ]

noun
  1. a river in E Guyana, flowing NE to the Atlantic Ocean. About 370 miles (595 km) long.

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How to use Berbice in a sentence

  • When you have passed this river, there is a good public road to New Amsterdam, the capital of Berbice.

    Wanderings in South America | Charles Waterton
  • Bearing in mind the disasters of the Berbice insurrection, the people of Georgetown were much alarmed.

  • When you have passed this river there is a good public road to New Amsterdam, the capital of Berbice.

    Wanderings in South America | Charles Waterton
  • Berbice, we were told by residents elsewhere, was behind the times.

    Jungle Peace | William Beebe
  • And the river was the Berbice, and the house that of Mr. Beckett.

    Jungle Peace | William Beebe