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Cameroon

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Cameroon

Etymology 1

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Borrowed fromFrenchCameroun, fromPortugueseRio dosCamarões(river ofprawns), a name given to theWouri riverestuary, in 1472 by the sailors of the Portuguese explorerFernão do Pó (a.k.a. Fernando Pó), raving about the abundance ofshrimps of the speciesLepidophthalmus turneranus (the Cameroon ghost shrimp) in the river;camarão itself is fromLatincammarus(lobster), fromAncient Greekκάμμαρος(kámmaros,a kind of lobster or shrimp).

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Proper noun

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Cameroon

  1. Acountry inCentral Africa. Official name:Republic of Cameroon. Capital:Yaoundé. It also claimsAmbazonia.
    • 2015 March 3, Ngala Killian Chimtom, “Cameroon in for long fight as its youth join Boko Haram”, inCNN[1]:
      Security officials say such a move makes it easy for Boko Haram to infiltrateCameroon and gather vital security information.
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country in Central Africa

Noun

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Cameroon (pluralCameroons)

  1. Asheep of a domesticated breed from West Africa.

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countries in Africa (appendix)edit

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Etymology 2

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Alteration ofCameron, influenced by-oon.

Noun

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Cameroon (pluralCameroons)

  1. (UK politics) A Conservative Party member withgreen orsocialliberal leanings, supporting the policies ofDavid Cameron.
    • 2007 March 21, Andy Beckett, “The Cameroons”, inThe Guardian[2]:
      He fears that in downplaying traditional Conservative causes, in changing the party to be more in tune with modern Britain, theCameroons have in effect accepted that they won't change the country much in office.
    • 2010 September 13, Iain Martin, “Nick Boles: The Coalition’sCameroon Outrider”, inWall Street Journal:
      Today, I spy a coalition outrider: Nick Boles, MP for Grantham, founder of Policy Exchange and the archetypalCameroon 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 aCameroon the man is.
    • 2012 March 30, James Chapman, “Gorgeous George and why Ed Miliband must now pray Ken Livingstone wins London”, inDaily Mail[3]:
      Maude was a moderniser before modernity dawned in the Tory ranks, aCameroon before David Cameron.
    • 2023 November 13, Bagehot, “What David Cameron's return says about British politics”, inEconomist[4]:
      Mr Cameron won significantly smaller vote shares than either Theresa May or Boris Johnson. There are not manyCameroons in Britain. Outside some newspaper op-ed pages, there never were.
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Cameroon

  1. Cameroon (acountry inCentral Africa)

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countries in Africa:nchi zaAfrika (appendix)edit
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