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Definition: Bissau |
BissauNoun1. The capital of Guinea-Bissau. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Geography | Capital of Guinea-Bissau. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: BissauSynonym: capital of Guinea-Bissau (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bissau |
| Non-English Usage: "Bissau" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (Bissau), Portuguese (Bissau). |
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Civil Liberties | Guinea-Bissau | The Diario de Bissau and the Gazeta de Noticias remained closed at year's end. (references) |
Guinea-Bissau | The Government carefully controlled movement within Bissau, prohibiting most traffic. (references) | |
Guinea-Bissau | In 2000 President Yala invalidated the passports of several politicians and placed them under house arrest in Bissau. (references) | |
Economic History | Guinea-Bissau | There is no U.S. embassy in Bissau. (references) |
Guinea-Bissau | Administrative Subdivisions: Autonomous sector of Bissau and eight regions. (references) | |
Guinea-Bissau | The U.S. opened an embassy in Bissau in 1976, and the first U.S. ambassador presented credentials later that year. (references) | |
Human Rights | Guinea-Bissau | The prison in Bissau is overcrowded and without running water or adequate sanitation. (references) |
Guinea-Bissau | President Yala invalidated their passports and placed them under house arrest in Bissau. (references) | |
Guinea-Bissau | In January Fernando Gomes, president of the Socialist Alliance of Guinea (Bissau) and former President of the Guinea-Bissau Human Right League (LGDH), checked into Simao hospital in Bissau after suffering a number of beatings ostensibly by security forces while he was in incommunicado detention in May 2000. In October the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) news reported that President Yala had threatened to shoot any politician trying to enter a military barracks in order to use the army against him. (references) | |
Political Rights | Guinea-Bissau | In addition to the 38 seats won by the PRS, the Resistencia da Guine Bissau (RGB) won 29 seats, and 4 other parties split the remaining 11 seats. (references) |
Worker Rights | Guinea-Bissau | In March the Government's refusal to intervene on the behalf of the Union of Bissau Guinean Workers (UNTG) discouraged the union from continuing its strike, and employees of the national radio and television stations returned to work after walking out for up to 15 days. (references) |
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Expression using "Bissau": guinea bissau. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Bissau": capital of Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-bissau, Guine-Bissau, Republic of Guinea-Bissau. | |
Containing "Bissau": Guinea-Bissau monetary unit, Guinea-Bissau peso. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
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guinea bissau hotel | 25 |
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bissau guinea hotel in | 5 |
bissau guinea news | 4 |
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bissau capital guinea | 4 |
bissau guinea people | 3 |
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map of guinea bissau | 2 |
bissau child | 2 |
guinea bissau photo | 2 |
guinea bissau picture | 2 |
bissau guinee | 2 |
bissau guinée | 2 |
bissau gui pg | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Bissau"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "绍. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Bissau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Bissau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Bisaŭo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Bissau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Bissau, Bissao. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Bissau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Μπισσάου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Bissau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 비사우. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | issaubay Bissau. (various references) "винея� (Guinea Bissau), "винея‐Бисау (Guinea Bissau). (various references) Bissau. (various references) Bissau. (various references) "вінея-бісау (Guinea bissau). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Bissau" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bassai, Bessay, Bissex, Bisso, Biswaf, Biswal, Bizjak, Bossau, Fizeau, Ibsa, Issah, Issalu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-i-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: basis, bassi, isbas, subas. | |
-2 letters: bass, bias, buss, isba, sabs, sibs, suba, subs. | |
-3 letters: abs, ais, ass, bas, bis, bus, sab, sau, sib, sis, sub. | |
-4 letters: ab, ai, as, ba, bi, is, si, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-i-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: airbuses, disabuse, iambuses, issuable, issuably, scabious, subbasin, subideas, tubaists. | |
+3 letters: absurdism, absurdist, airbursts, airbusses, babirusas, balisaurs, basinfuls, bisexuals, bubalises, bursaries, disabused, disabuses, fabulists, gambusias, railbuses, sillabubs, simarubas, subbasins, subsocial, subtopias, suburbias, subvicars, subvisual, urbanises, urbanisms, urbanists. | |
+4 letters: absolutism, absolutist, abstemious, abstrusity, absurdisms, absurdists, airbrushes, bisulfates, brutalises, carburises, disabusing, isobutanes, railbusses, salubrious, scabiouses, squabbiest, stirabouts, strabismus, subarctics, sublations, subleasing, sublimates, submarines, submittals, subsidiary, substation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 73 73 61 75 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. ... ... .- ..- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01110011 01110011 01100001 01110101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i s s a u |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0073 0073 0061 0075 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367585856787 |
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