Demerara

Definition: Demerara

Demerara

Noun

1. A light brown raw cane sugar from Guyana.

Date "demerara" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Demerara

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
DEMBA	English	Demerara Bauxite Company	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: Demerara

English words defined with "demerara": Kakaralli ♦ Suradanni ♦ Wallaba, White cedar. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Demerara

Domain	Title
Books	Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823 (reference) Demerara Doctor: Confessions and Reminiscences of a Self-Taught Physician (reference) Demerara Martyr: Memoirs of the Reverend John Smith, Missionary of Demerara (reference) Slavery's martyr : John Smith of Demerara and the emancipation movement, 1817-24 (reference) The London Missionary Society's Report of the Proceedings Against the Late Rev. J. Smith, of Demerara, Who Was Tried Under Martial Law, and Condemned (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Demerara

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Guyana	Demerara Timbers Limited (1991) is owned by a consortium of European banks which took over the assets of the original purchaser of the state-owned Demerara Woods. (references)
	Guyana	The Dutch settled in Guyana in the late 16th century, but their control ended when the British became the de facto rulers in 1796. In 1815, the colonies of Essequibo, Demerara, and Berbice were officially ceded to Great Britain at the Congress of Vienna and, in 1831, were consolidated as British Guiana. (references)
Trade	Guyana	There are three private Guyanese banks: Citizens Bank, the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI), a previously government-owned bank which was privatized in 1994, and Demerara Bank, which is partly U.S.-owned. Guyana's central bank is the Bank of Guyana. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Demerara

"Demerara" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Demerara" is used about 18 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 (singular)	55.56%	10	111,207
Noun (proper)	44.44%	8	124,375
Total	100.00%	18	N/A

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

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Expression: Demerara

Expression using "demerara": demerara sugar. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Demerara

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
demerara sugar	10
demerara	10
club demerara	4
demerara rum	3
demerara river	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Demerara

Language		Translations for "demerara"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Dutch		demerara groenhart (demerara greenheart, greenheart). (various references)

Finnish		viherpuu (demerara greenheart, greenheart), greenheart (demerara greenheart, greenheart). (various references)

French		greenheart de demerara (demerara greenheart), coeur vert (demerara greenheart), cassonade (demerara sugar). (various references)

German		Demerara (demerara greenheart, greenheart), Gruenherz (demerara greenheart, greenheart), Greenheart (demerara greenheart, greenheart). (various references)

Italian		cuorverde (demerara greenheart, greenheart). (various references)

Pig Latin		emeraraday

Portuguese		Demerara greenheart (demerara greenheart, greenheart), torchwood (demerara greenheart, greenheart), beberu (demerara greenheart, greenheart). (various references)

Swedish		demerara (demerara greenheart, greenheart), farin (demerara sugar). (various references)

Turkish		esmer şeker (brown sugar, muscovado). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Demerara

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Nectandra rodiaei, Ocotea rodiaei. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Demerara

Derivations
	Words beginning with "demerara": demeraras. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Demerara

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-m-r-r"
	-1 letter: dreamer, rearmed, redream.
	-2 letters: dearer, marred, reader, reamed, reamer, reared, redear, remade, reread.
	-3 letters: adeem, ameer, areae, armed, armer, damar, darer, derma, drama, dream, drear, eared, edema, erred, madre, merde, merer, radar, ramee, rared, rearm.
	-4 letters: area, dame, dare, dear, deem, deer, deme, dere, derm, dram, dree, maar, made, mare, mead, meed, mere, rare.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-e-m-r-r"
	+1 letter: demeraras, earmarked.
	+2 letters: daydreamer.
	+3 letters: camaraderie, daydreamers, embarcadero, embarrassed, masquerader, trademarked, unearmarked, warmhearted, watermarked.
	+4 letters: camaraderies, embarcaderos, masqueraders, parametrized.
	+5 letters: embarrassedly, mediterranean, overdramatize, parameterized, sclerodermata, unembarrassed.
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