Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Cameroon

Definitions: Cameroon

Cameroon

Noun

1. 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: Cameroon

Synonyms: Cameroun (n), Republic of Cameroon (n). (additional references)

Top     

.

Crosswords: Cameroon

English words defined with "Cameroon": Biu-MandaraCameroon franc, Cameroonian, capital of Cameroon, centimeDoualaFangMandaraRepublic of CameroonWandalaYaounde. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Cameroon": Africa, CentralCFA francThe NineteenYaoundé. (references)

Top     

Modern Usage: Cameroon

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Bamoon Masks of Cameroon (1993)

Cameroon Connection (1985)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Commercial Usage: Cameroon

DomainTitle

References

  • Executive Report on Strategies in Cameroon,1999 edition (reference)

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Cut Flowers and Foliage in Cameroon (reference)

  • A Strategic Profile of Cameroon,1999 edition (reference)

  • Executive Report on Strategies in Cameroon, 2000 edition (reference)

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Salted, Preserved, Dried and Smoked Meat and Edible Offals in Cameroon (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Middlemen of the Cameroon Rivers: The Duala and their Hinterland c.1600-c. 1960 (reference)

  • Proceedings of Fertilizer Efficiency Research and Technology Transfer Workshop for Africa South of the Sahara: Douala, Cameroon, January 21-25, 1985) (reference)

  • Memoirs of a Mbororo: The Life of Ndudi Umaru: Fulani Nomad of Cameroon (Cameroon Studies) (reference)

  • Farming gently, farming fast : migration, incorporation and agricultural change in the Mandara mountains of Northern Cameroon (reference)

  • Sense Pass King: A Story from Cameroon (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Image Slideshow: Cameroon

Computer Images:
Cameroon

More images...

Top     

Non-Fiction Usage: Cameroon

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

Top     

Usage Frequency: Cameroon

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%19521,939

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Expression: Cameroon

Expressions using "Cameroon": Cameroon franc capital of Cameroon Republic of Cameroon. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "Cameroon": trans-cameroon.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cameroon

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

Top     

Modern Translations: Cameroon

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.

Top     

Misspellings: Cameroon

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).

Top     

Anagrams: Cameroon

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Cameroon


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 6D 65 72 6F 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    --    .    .-.    ---    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01101101 01100101 01110010 01101111 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#109 &#101 &#114 &#111 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 006D 0065 0072 006F 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3767797184818180

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.