Guinness definition

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(countable) A surname​, an Anglicization of an Irish patronymic surname based on Angus.
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(uncountable) A brand of dark stout beer from Ireland, one of the most widely recognised brands of beer in the world, named for Arthur Guinness who first brewed it.
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(countable) A serving of the beverage.

Three Guinnesses please, barman.

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(person) (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe) 1914-2000; Eng. actor.
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Noun

Singular:
guinness
Plural:
guinnesses

Guinness Sentence Examples

  • However adverse influences may have been combated, Dublin yet produces little for export save whisky and porter, the latter from the famous Guinness brewery and others; but a considerable export trade, principally in agricultural produce, passes through Dublin from the country.

  • There are breweries in most of the larger Irish towns, and Dublin is celebrated for the porter produced by the firm of Arthur Guinness & Son, the largest establishment of the kind in the world.

  • Most recently Quentin was 3D supervising animator on the VES Award winning Guinness ' Rhythm of Life ' commercial.

  • Mc Guinness read from his poetry anthology The Canal of Mars.

  • William Roache, portraying Ken Barlow, is the only actor to remain on Coronation Street for the first fifty years, and has earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the World's Longest Serving Soap Star.

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