Download the app
educalingo
Search
In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Meaning of "Cameroon" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF CAMEROON

Cameroon  [ˌkæməˈruːn] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CAMEROON

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cameroon is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CAMEROON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cameroon

Cameroon

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in the west Central Africa region. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the Bight of Bonny, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. The country is often referred to as "Africa in miniature" for its geological and cultural diversity. Natural features include beaches, deserts, mountains, rainforests, and savannas. The highest point is Mount Cameroon in the southwest, and the largest cities are Douala, Yaoundé and Garoua. Cameroon is home to over 200 different linguistic groups. The country is well known for its native styles of music, particularly makossa and bikutsi, and for its successful national football team. French and English are the official languages. Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilisation around Lake Chad and the Baka hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rainforest.

Definition of Cameroon in the English dictionary

The definition of Cameroon in the dictionary is a republic in West Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: became a German colony in 1884; divided in 1919 into the Cameroons and Cameroun ; Cameroun and the S part of the Cameroons formed a republic in 1961 ; became a member of the Commonwealth in 1995. Official languages: French and English. Religions: Christian, Muslim, and animist. Currency: franc. Capital: Yaoundé. Pop: 20 549 221. Area: 475 500 sq km French name: Cameroun German name: Kamerun. Other definition of Cameroon is an active volcano in W Cameroon: the highest peak on the West African coast. Height: 4070 m.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CAMEROON


ceroon
sɪˈruːn
Duntroon
dʌnˈtruːn
Gudrun
ˈɡʊdruːn
Iskenderun
ɪsˈkɛndəˌruːn
Kamerun
ˈkaməruːn
kroon
kruːn
macaroon
ˌmækəˈruːn
maroon
məˈruːn
octaroon
ˌɒktəˈruːn
octoroon
ˌɒktəˈruːn
patroon
pəˈtruːn
picaroon
ˌpɪkəˈruːn
pickaroon
ˌpɪkəˈruːn
prune
pruːn
quarteroon
ˌkwɔːtəˈruːn
rune
ruːn
Scandaroon
ˌskændəˈruːn
strewn
struːn
tenoroon
ˌtɛnəˈruːn
vinegarroon
ˌvɪnɪɡəˈruːn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CAMEROON

Cameron
Cameroonian
Cameroun

WORDS THAT END LIKE CAMEROON

croon
gadroon
gambroon
godroon
gombroon
heroon
poltroon
quadroon
quintroon
seroon
shagroon
spadroon

Synonyms and antonyms of Cameroon in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Cameroon» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF CAMEROON

Find out the translation of Cameroon to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Cameroon from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Cameroon» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

喀麦隆
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Camerún
570 millions of speakers

English

Cameroon
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कैमरून
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكَامِيرُون
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Камерун
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

República dos Camarões
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্যামেরুন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Cameroun
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kamerun
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kamerun
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カメルーン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

카메룬
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kamerun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nước Cameroon
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கமரூன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॅमेरून
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kamerun
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Camerun
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Kamerun
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Камерун
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Camerun
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Καμερούν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Kameroen
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Kamerun
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Kamerun
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Cameroon

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CAMEROON»

The term «Cameroon» is very widely used and occupies the 6.543 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Very widely used
97
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «Cameroon» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of Cameroon
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Cameroon».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CAMEROON» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Cameroon» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Cameroon» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Cameroon

EXAMPLES

9 QUOTES WITH «CAMEROON»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Cameroon.
1
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave.
2
Robbie Keane
Some have said it is the easiest group at the World Cup, but we realize it won't be like that. Germany are a tremendous side, but to be honest I don't know much about Cameroon and Saudi Arabia.
3
Nicholas D. Kristof
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.
4
Nicholas D. Kristof
The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.
5
Roger Milla
Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.
6
Roger Milla
Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players aren't necessarily very technical, but that when they play, they play to win.
7
Roger Milla
Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.
8
Joakim Noah
I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.
9
Yannick Noah
I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAMEROON»

Discover the use of Cameroon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Cameroon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Cameroon
Annoteret bibliografi.
Mark D. DeLancey, 1999
2
Cameroon
This guide is the perfect companion for the international business traveller who wants to have the best of both worlds - business and leisure. It offers comprehensive info which is either difficult to find or simply doesn't exist elsewhere.
Pascal Belda, 2006
3
Cameroon
A thoroughly updated edition of the most in-depth guide available to Cameroon, a country home to ancient tribal kingdoms, colorful trading towns, 'pygmy' hunting camps, and endangered lowland gorillas.
Ben West, 2011
4
Cameroon
Describes the geography history culture industry and people of Cameroon
Patricia K. Kummer, 2004
5
Cameroon
This volume on the Cameroonian English contains two main sections.
Loreto Todd, 1982
6
English in Cameroon
The speech community of the Anglophones is highlighted as a rare example of an ethnicity tied to the second language. Apart from important sociolinguistic findings, the work includes a novel, corpus-based analysis of Cameroon English.
Hans-Georg Wolf, 2001
7
A Dictionary of Cameroon English Usage
This book initiates the process of codification of a postcolonial variety of English, namely Cameroon English.
Jean-Paul Kouega, 2007
8
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon
The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon has been updated to reflect advances in the study of Cameroon's history as well as to provide coverage of the years since the last edition.
Mark Dike DeLancey, Rebecca Mbuh, Mark W. Delancey, 2010
9
Cameroon: The Stakes and Challenges of Governance and ...
This book deals with the important subject of governance and development.
Tangie Nsoh Fonchingong, John Bobuin Gemandze, 2009
10
The 1961 Cameroon Plebiscite: Choice Or Betrayal
This book captures the story of the plebiscite in all its dimensions and intricacies and celebrates the author's admiration for things African through a series of reminiscences of what life was like in the 1960s, both for the Africans ...
John Percival, Lalage Neal, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAMEROON»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Cameroon is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Beer and business: the unexpected benefits of water access in …
A pioneering solar-powered water project has allowed villagers in Cameroon's arid north to start small businesses. Photograph: ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Cameroon: Bolloré group launches third electric bus at Université de …
(Business in Cameroon) - On July 2, 2015, Université de Yaoundé I put its third electric bus, provided by Bolloré Africa Logistics, into service. «Business in Cameroon, Jul 15»
3
Cameroon duo held for duping pet lover | Hyderabad NYOOOZ
HYDERABAD: Cyberabad police arrested two Cameroon nationals for duping a pet lover of Rs 50,000 in the guise of selling a pair of macaw ... «NYOOOZ, Jul 15»
4
Maternal /Infant Mortality - High Impact Vaccination On Course
She emphasised that all these activities have been proven to contribute to the reduction of maternal and infant mortality in Cameroon as well as ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
5
Interview - 'Vaccination Against Polio Will Continue'
It was a successful campaign because all the regions in Cameroon were reached. It was carried out in a synchronised manner in all the ten ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
6
ECAir, the Congolese airline, to start flying the Cameroon skies …
The Congolese national carrier, ECAir (Equatorial Congo Airlines) will commence flights to Yaoundé, Cameroon's capital, starting in August ... «cameroon concord, Jul 15»
7
Agro-Pastoral Census Afoot
He gladly told his close aids on the sidelines of the get-together that their dream of second-generation agriculture in Cameroon was taking ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
8
CDC Embezzlement Case - Prosecution Presents Four Witnesses
Matters in the case between the people of Cameroon and State of Cameroon; Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC) against Oteil Mbua ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
9
Cocoa: Barry Callebaut subsidiary's ground cocoa production dips
(Business in Cameroon) - Société industrielle des cacaos (Sic Cacaos), the Cameroonian subsidiary of the Swiss agro-foods firm, Barry ... «Business in Cameroon, Jul 15»
10
Abah Abah Trial - Prosecution Witness Presents Evidence
Cameroon: Abah Abah Trial - Prosecution Witness Presents Evidence ... to a cooperative and the State of Cameroon worth FCFA 1.8 billion. «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Cameroon [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cameroon>. May 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z