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Definition of Stabroek
1. Noun. Port city and the capital and largest city of Guyana. "The city was called Stabroek by the Dutch but was renamed Georgetown by the British in 1812"
Generic synonyms: Port, National Capital
Group relationships: British Guiana, Co-operative Republic Of Guyana, Guyana
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stabroek
Literary usage of Stabroek
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in by James Edward Alexander (1833)
"Injudicious manner in which the English and Dutch live in stabroek.—Animal food
condemned.—The public buildings and private residences.—stabroek a city of ..."
2. Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in by James Edward Alexander (1833)
"Injudicious manner in which the English and Dutch live in stabroek.—Animal food
condemned—The public buildings and private residences.—stabroek a city of ..."
3. Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in by James Edward Alexander (1833)
"Land at stabroek.—The streets.—The white inhabitants The coloured—The negroes—The
coloured and black freemen. —The Indians or Rucks.—The military. ..."
4. A Residence in the West Indies and America: With a Narrative of the by Thomas Staunton St. Clair, James Glenn (1834)
"Town of stabroek — Impressions on landing — Roads — Houses — Mode of
Building—Fire-flies — The Barracks — Picture of Ensign Grant in borrowed Clothes ..."
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