A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Suriname. Capital and largest city: Paramaribo.
suriname
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for suriname.
Editorial note
It's why you can find a store run by Chinese expats in the middle of the Suriname jungle.
Quick take
A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Suriname. Capital and largest city: Paramaribo.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of suriname gathered in one view.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for suriname.
noun
A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Suriname. Capital and largest city: Paramaribo.
See also: netherlands-guiana, dutch-guiana, surinam
Example sentences
It's why you can find a store run by Chinese expats in the middle of the Suriname jungle.
Technically, Guyana's neighbor is Suriname to the East, not French Guiana - there isn't a shared border.
My understanding of Dutch is that Dutch media from Suriname to Belgium to NL uses the same prestige dialect.
In fact the Dutch owned New York once (then called New Amsterdam;-) until they effectively traded it with the British for Suriname and some spare change.
Reminds me of the dictatorship in Suriname in the 1980s.
Large Islamic ethnic groups like the Pomaks and Indo-Muslims of Suriname exist in places many wouldn't consider to be Islamic such as South American rainforests and Europe.
I think the Suriname frog (toad?) is my favourite.
Some topics from the last few weeks are: * Traineeship Suriname[1]: a topic about a Dutch girl that is going for a traineeship in Suriname and she has a certain fetish for black people and is mainly interested in having sex with said people.
A more clear example I don't have a link for, it was on Twitter somewhere: someone tested a photo from Suriname and o3 said one of the clues was left-handed traffic.
Between 1940 and 1960, 30,000 ha were lost in the Ulua Valley of Honduras, and in a decade complete losses were recorded in operations of 4,000 ha in Suriname and 6,000 ha in the Quepos area in Costa Rica.
Quote examples
Brown person can be a descendant of the “Coolies” taken as Indentured servants to Fiji, Trinidad, Suriname, Malaysia, SA etc.
Proper noun examples
It's pure stochastic parroting: given you are playing GeoGuesser honestly, and given the answer is Suriname, the conditional probability that you mention left-handed traffic is very high.
Suriname, as the third Dutch speaking country, does use the same spellings as Belgium and the Netherlands.
Most of those definitions do exclude English-speaking Belize and Guyana (and Dutch-speaking Suriname).
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use suriname in a sentence?
It's why you can find a store run by Chinese expats in the middle of the Suriname jungle.
What does suriname mean?
A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Suriname. Capital and largest city: Paramaribo.
What part of speech is suriname?
suriname is commonly used as noun.