Cameroon
/kæməˈɹuːn/
Cameroon proper noun: a country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Cameroon. Capital: Yaoundé. It also claims Ambazonia.
Proper noun
Cameroon
- A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Cameroon. Capital: Yaoundé. It also claims Ambazonia.
- Security officials say such a move makes it easy for Boko Haram to infiltrate Cameroon and gather vital security information.2015 March 3, Ngala Killian Chimtom, “Cameroon in for long fight as its youth join Boko Haram”, in CNN
Noun (1)
Cameroon (plural Cameroons)
- A sheep of a domesticated breed from West Africa.
Noun (2)
Cameroon (plural Cameroons)
- A Conservative Party member with green or social liberal leanings, supporting the policies of David Cameron.
- He fears that in downplaying traditional Conservative causes, in changing the party to be more in tune with modern Britain, the Cameroons have in effect accepted that they won't change the country much in office.2007 March 21, Andy Beckett, “The Cameroons”, in The Guardian
- Today, I spy a coalition outrider: Nick Boles, MP for Grantham, founder of Policy Exchange and the archetypal Cameroon ultra-modernizer. I don’t think Boles even owned a tie until he was elected to the House of Commons. That’s how much of a Cameroon the man is.2010 September 13, Iain Martin, “Nick Boles: The Coalition’s Cameroon Outrider”, in Wall Street Journal
Cameroon meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
Cameroon in Hindi
- country in Central Africa
- कैमरून kaimrūn
Cameroon in Tamil
- country in Central Africa
- கேமரூன் kēmarūṉ, கமரூன் kamarūṉ, கமெரூன் kamerūṉ
Cameroon in Urdu
- country in Central Africa
- کیمرون kaimarūn
Cameroon in Bengali
- country in Central Africa
- ক্যামেরুন kêmerun
More languagesFewer languages
- Cameroon in Kannada
- ಕ್ಯಾಮೆರೂನ್
- Cameroon in Sinhala
- කැමරූන් kæmarūn
- Cameroon in Tagalog
- Kamerun
- Cameroon in Arabic
- الْكَامِيرُون al-kāmīrūn, الْكَمِيرُون al-kamīrūn
- Cameroon in Persian
- کامرون kâmerun
- Cameroon in Thai
- แคเมอรูน kɛɛ-məə-ruun
- Cameroon in Vietnamese
- Ca-mơ-run
- Cameroon in Myanmar
- ကင်မရွန်း kangma.rwan:
- Dhivehi
- ކެމަރޫން kemarūn̊
Examples of Cameroon in a sentence
- Maude was a moderniser before modernity dawned in the Tory ranks, a Cameroon before David Cameron.2012 March 30, James Chapman, “Gorgeous George and why Ed Miliband must now pray Ken Livingstone wins London”, in Daily Mail, archived from...
- There are not many Cameroons in Britain.2023 November 13, Bagehot, “What David Cameron's return says about British politics”, in Economist:
Forms of Cameroon
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Origin of Cameroon
Borrowed from French Cameroun, from Portuguese Rio dos Camarões (“river of prawns”), a name given to the Wouri river estuary, in 1472 by the sailors of the Portuguese explorer Fernão do Pó (a.k.a. Fernando Pó), raving about the abundance of shrimps of the species Lepidophthalmus turneranus (the Cameroon ghost shrimp) in the river; camarão itself is from Latin cammarus (“lobster”), from Ancient Greek κάμμαρος (kámmaros, “a kind of lobster or shrimp”).
Alteration of Cameron, influenced by -oon.
Words formed from Cameroon
Phrases with Cameroon
Words that rhyme with Cameroon
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- croon
- blue moon
- boon
- monsoon
- noon
- pontoon
- raccoon
- tribune
- attune
- dragoon
- hoon
- immune
- picayune
- platoon
- soon
- swoon
- tycoon
- afternoon
- baboon
- commune
- doubloon
- harpoon
- jejune
- pantaloon
- picaroon
- shalloon
- bassoon
- buffoon
- cocoon
- dabloon
- entune
- gadroon
- hewn
- impugn
- jargoon
- june
- lacune
- last chance saloon
- lune
- macaroon
- man in the moon
- maroon
- poon
- puccoon
- ratoon
- scone
- toon
- trial balloon
Questions about Cameroon
- What does Cameroon mean?
- Cameroon means a country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Cameroon. Capital: Yaoundé. It also claims Ambazonia.
- What is Cameroon in Hindi?
- Cameroon in Hindi is कैमरून (kaimrūn). See Cameroon meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use Cameroon in a sentence?
- Maude was a moderniser before modernity dawned in the Tory ranks, a Cameroon before David Cameron.
- What part of speech is Cameroon?
- Cameroon can be a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce Cameroon?
- Cameroon is pronounced /kæməˈɹuːn/.
Words near Cameroon in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Cameroon (page history and authors); Cameroon (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-Cameroon-pronunciation.ogg, LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Cameroon.wav.
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