guarani
noun
a paper money and monetary unit of Paraguay, equal to 100 centimos.
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guarani
1 American
[gwahr-uh-nee, gwahr-uh-nee]
/ ˌgwɑr əˈni, ˈgwɑr əˌni /
noun
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guarani,
plural
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guaranis
plural
Guarani
2
American
[gwahr-uh-nee]
/ ˌgwɑr əˈni /
Or
Guaraní
noun
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Guaranis,
plural
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Guaranies,
plural
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Guarani
plural
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a member of an Indian people now living principally in Paraguay.
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a language belonging to the Tupi-Guarani family of languages and spoken by the Guarani Indians: the chief vernacular of Paraguay.
Guarani
1
British
/ ˌɡwɑːrəˈniː /
noun
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a member of a South American Indian people of Paraguay, S Brazil, and Bolivia
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the language of this people, belonging to the Tupi-Guarani family; one of the official languages of Paraguay, along with Spanish
guaraní
2
British
/ ˈɡwɑːrənɪ /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of guarani
1940–45; < Spanish, after Guarani
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In western Paraná, Brazil, the Avá Guarani people have lost much of their ancestral lands to vast soy plantations.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2025
One example of such extreme deprivation cited in the report is the case of Ricardo, a member of the Guarani Indigenous community living outside Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia's largest city.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
"Demarcation is important, because it is not only a social issue, but also a spiritual, traditional and cultural issue," said Jurandir Karai Djekupe, a Guarani Mbya leader from the north of São Paulo.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2023
Representatives from the Terena and Guarani tribes joined the demonstration, some donning headdresses and black-and-red face paint.
From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2022
There is a large heron, called in Guarani the tuyùajù—that is, one which walks in the mud—nearly as tall as a man, with a bill more than a foot in length.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
Los Guaranies had a wonderful opportunity with a three-on-one in the 11th minute, but Brooks intervened with a well-timed and immaculate slide tackle in the penalty area.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2016
Its inhabitants were the docile Guaranies, who knew something of agriculture and in whose villages considerable stores of food were to be found.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson
Tamoi, of the Guaranis, was 'the ancient of heaven,' clearly no mortal man.
From The Making of Religion by Andrew Lang
The Guaranis of Paraguay did not differ, in this respect, from their congeners.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
The Guaranis were the principal nation dwelling on the eastern portion of South America.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
Azara noted among the Guaranis of Paraguay that menstruation was not only slight in amount, but the periods were separated by long intervals.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Havelock Ellis
He joined the Society of Jesus in 1736, and in 1749 proceeded to Paraguay, where for eighteen years he worked devotedly first among the Guaranis, and then among the Abipones.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
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