Ghana

[ gah-nuh, gan-uh ]

noun

1. a republic in West Africa comprising the former colonies of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, the protectorate of the Northern Territories, and the U.N. trusteeship of British Togoland: member of the Commonwealth of Nations since 1957. 91,843 sq. mi. (237,873 sq. km). : Accra.
2. Kingdom of Ghana, a medieval western African empire extending from near the Atlantic coast almost to Timbuktu; flourished from about the 9th to 12th centuries.

Ghana

/ ˈɡɑːnə /

noun

1. a republic in W Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: a powerful empire from the 4th to the 13th centuries; a major source of gold and slaves for Europeans after 1471; British colony of the Gold Coast established in 1874; united with British Togoland in 1957 and became a republic and a member of the Commonwealth in 1960. Official language: English. Religions: Christian, Muslim, and animist. Currency: cedi. Capital: Accra. Pop: 25 199 609 (2013 est). Area: 238 539 sq km (92 100 sq miles)

Ghana

1. Nation in western Africa bordered to the north by Burkina Faso , to the east by Togo, to the south by the Atlantic Ocean , and to the west by the Ivory Coast . Its capital and largest city is Accra.

Notes

It was colonized as the Gold Coast by Britain .

Other Words From

• an·ti-Gha·na adjective
• Gha·na·ian Gha·ni·an [gah, -nee-, uh, n, gan, -ee-], noun adjective
• pro-Ghana adjective

Example Sentences

Its first shipment of 600,000 shots was sent February 24, to Ghana.

From Science News

Local artist Andrea Rowe Kraus’s travel pictures are different from most people’s, and not just because they portray such less-visited lands as Ghana, Myanmar and Uzbekistan.

From Washington Post

We’ve been producing this event called a Full Circle Festival for the past three years and bringing people over to Ghana and reconnecting with the ancestry and visiting all the sites and all that.

From Ozy

He also helps support thousands of students in Ghana, his home country.

From Washington Post

Samurai, which was established in the same year, has invested in around 25 companies in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Uganda and Rwanda, says managing partner Rena Yoneyama.

From Ozy

It seems like a personal one for you, since your parents are from Sierra Leone and Ghana.

From The Daily Beast

I have not lived in these three countries, I lived in Uganda and Ghana.

From The Daily Beast

The restriction on the use of hands (decried by some soccer-objectors, including myself until we beat Ghana) is sensible.

From The Daily Beast

I switched on the June 16 USA vs. Ghana World Cup match looking for things to loathe.

From The Daily Beast

Anyway, USA vs. Ghana was a great game, a wonderful game, an enthralling game.

From The Daily Beast

And then he also brought some photographs from Ghana—so I'm pretty sure he was there.

From Project Gutenberg

And I am pretty sure that he was in Ghana because he brought a newspaper—Ghana newspaper—and there was a picture, small picture.

From Project Gutenberg

I understood that some Swedish people arranged the Ghana trip of his.

From Project Gutenberg

And then—I'm not sure whether he was twice in Ghana or only once.

From Project Gutenberg

But he would tell, yes; about—he would sometimes bring photographs like he brought from Europe, from Ghana, you know.

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