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Definitions: Cameroon |
CameroonNoun1. An inactive volcano in western Cameroon; highest peak on the West African coast. 2. A republic on the western coast of central Africa; was under French and British control until 1960. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: CameroonSynonyms: Cameroun (n), Republic of Cameroon (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cameroon |
| English words defined with "Cameroon": Biu-Mandara ♦ Cameroon franc, Cameroonian, capital of Cameroon, centime ♦ Douala ♦ Fang ♦ Mandara ♦ Republic of Cameroon ♦ Wandala ♦ Yaounde. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Cameroon": Africa, Central ♦ CFA franc ♦ The Nineteen ♦ Yaoundé. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Bamoon Masks of Cameroon (1993) Cameroon Connection (1985) | |
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Health | Transmission of Guinea worm no longer occurs in several countries, including India, Pakistan, Kenya, Senegal, Yemen, and Cameroon. (references) | |
Business | Eskom's African activities have expanded rapidly since the establishment of Eskom Enterprises and currently more than 20 projects are under evaluation with activities taking place in Ghana, Cameroon, The Gambia, Uganda, Namibia, and Morocco among others. (references) | |
Children | Cameroon | In June the Cooperative of the Handicapped Persons of Cameroon occupied two abandoned government residences in Yaounde and Douala in order to have locations where the cooperative could lead its social activities in lieu of scarce resources. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Chad | Most Chadian refugees reside in the Niger, Libya, Sudan, Nigeria, and Cameroon. (references) |
Equatorial Guinea | Police and solders continued to target citizens of Cameroon, Gabon, and Nigeria. (references) | |
Economic History | Chad | Cameroon recently established a stock exchange. (references) |
Cameroon | Cameroon has a number of independent newspapers. (references) | |
Cameroon | There is no longer a bilateral USAID program in Cameroon. (references) | |
Human Rights | Cameroon | The NCHRF admitted in a February media interview that "some people are just forgotten in prison." In a March 12 press release, the Cameroon Organization for Citizens' Rights and Freedoms disclosed the results of an investigation that it conducted in the Yaounde Central Prison. (references) |
Political Economy | Cameroon | Cameroon is a republic dominated by a strong presidency. (references) |
Cameroon | Since independence a single party, now called the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM), has remained in power. (references) | |
Trade | Chad | CEMAC countries include Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), Cameroon, Gabon, and Central African Republic, and Equatorial Guinea. (references) |
Travel | Eq. Guinea | Cameroon Airlines and Air Gabon also provide service from Douala, Yaounde and Libreville. (references) |
Chad | The nearest port facility is in Douala, Cameroon, 1800 km (over 1000 miles) from the capital of N'Djamena. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Gabon | The children were assisted by Cameroon government officials and repatriated to their home countries. (references) |
Cameroon | In September a boat capsized off the coast of Cameroon carrying an estimated 140 suspected child slaves en route to Gabon. (references) | |
South Africa | In Africa women are trafficked from neighboring countries including Angola, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Cameroon, Malawi, and Rwanda. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cameroon" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cameroon" is used about 195 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 195 | 21,939 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Cameroon": Cameroon franc ♦ capital of Cameroon ♦ Republic of Cameroon. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "Cameroon": trans-cameroon. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
cameroon | 1,142 |
cameroon hotel | 129 |
douala cameroon | 113 |
yaounde cameroon | 101 |
cameroon soccer | 84 |
cameroon news | 61 |
cameroon football | 50 |
cameroon tribune | 47 |
cameroon info.net | 43 |
cameroon foe | 39 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Cameroon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | Kameroen (Cameroun). (various references) | |
Albanian | Kamerun. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Камерун. (various references) | |
Chinese | 喀麦隆 (Cameroonian). (various references) | |
Danish | Cameroun (Republic of Cameroon, the Republic of Cameroon), Republikken Cameroun (Republic of Cameroon), den republik Cameroun (the Republic of Cameroon). (various references) | |
Dutch | Kameroen (Cameroun, Republic of Cameroon, the Republic of Cameroon). (various references) | |
Esperanto | Kameruno (Cameroun), kameruna. (various references) | |
Finnish | Kamerunin tasavalta (Republic of Cameroon), Kamerun (Republic of Cameroon). (various references) | |
French | Cameroun (Republic of Cameroon, the Republic of Cameroon). (various references) | |
German | Kamerun (Cameroons, Republic of Cameroon, the Republic of Cameroon). (various references) | |
Greek | Καμερούν (Republic of Cameroon), "ημοκρατία του Καμερούν (Republic of Cameroon). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Kamerun. (various references) | |
Irish | Camarún. (various references) | |
Italian | Camerun (Republic of Cameroon, the Republic of Cameroon), Repubblica del Camerun (Republic of Cameroon, the Republic of Cameroon). (various references) | |
Korean | 카"루운 (Cameroun). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amerooncay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Camarões (Republic of Cameroon). (various references) | |
Romanian | Camerun. (various references) | |
Russian | Камерун (Cameroons). (various references) | |
Spanish | Camerún (Republic of Cameroon). (various references) | |
Swedish | Republiken Kamerun (Republic of Cameroon), Kamerun (Republic of Cameroon). (various references) | |
Thai | ประเทศคาเมรูน, คาเมรูน. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Cameroon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cabezon, Caehrun, Camaro, Camaroon, Camarvon, Camelon, Camerano, Camero, Camerone, Camerun, Cammerino, Caneuon, Comerton, Cwmavon, Dameron, kamerun, Kazerooni, Kemerovo, Kemerton, Zamaron. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: coenamor. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-m-n-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: coronae, romance. | |
-2 letters: carmen, cornea, corona, enamor, macron, maroon, moaner, racoon, romano. | |
-3 letters: acorn, cameo, caner, canoe, carom, comae, comer, cooer, crane, cream, crone, croon, enorm, macer, macon, macro, manor, morae, moron, nacre, namer, narco, ocean, ocrea, racon, ramen, rance, recon, reman, roman, romeo. | |
-4 letters: acme, acne, acre, aeon, aero, amen, arco, came, cane, care, carn, cero, coma, come, cone, coon, core, corm, corn, cram, earn, mace, mane, mano, marc, mare, mean, meno, moan, mono, moon, moor, mora, more, morn, name, narc, near, nema, noma, nome, norm, omen, omer, once, orca, race, ream, roam, roan, room. | |
-5 letters: ace, ane, arc, are, arm, cam, can, car, con, coo, cor, ear, eon, era, ern, mac, mae, man, mar, men, moa, moc, mon, moo, mor, nae, nam, nom, noo, nor, oar, oca, one, ora, orc, ore, ram, ran, rec, rem, roc, roe, rom. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-m-n-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: aeronomic, coenamors. | |
+2 letters: chromonema, coenamored, coromandel. | |
+3 letters: aeronomical, anchorwomen, axonometric, coenamoring, commentator, compensator, conformable, conformance, coromandels, embrocation, homonuclear, monocracies, mononuclear, nomenclator, oneiromancy. | |
+4 letters: adrenochrome, chromonemata, cochairwomen, commendatory, commentators, compensators, compensatory, condemnatory, conformances, conglomerate, contemplator, contemporary, craniotomies, embrocations, metronomical, mononuclears, nomenclators, nonmolecular. | |
+5 letters: adrenochromes, anisometropic, chromonematic, clamorousness, commemorating, commemoration, commiseration, compressional, conglomerated, conglomerates, conglomeratic, conglomerator, congresswoman, contemplators, ergonomically, macroeconomic, monoaminergic, monomolecular, neuroanatomic, noncommercial, noncomparable, nondemocratic, numerological, oneiromancies, overdominance, recombination, recompilation, recomputation, triamcinolone, uncomfortable, unconformable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6D 65 72 6F 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -- . .-. --- --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101101 01100101 01110010 01101111 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a m e r o o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006D 0065 0072 006F 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767797184818180 |
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