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Meaning of Cameroon | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
kæməˈɹuːn

Definitions

  1. A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Cameroon. Capital: Yaoundé. It also claims Ambazonia.
  2. A sheep of a domesticated breed from West Africa.
  3. A Conservative Party member with green or social liberal leanings, supporting the policies of David Cameron.
    UK

Equivalents

Afrikaans Kameroen
العربية الكاميرون الْكَمِيرُون كاميرون
বাংলা ক্যামেরুন
བོད་སྐད ཁམ་མུ་རོན
Bosanski Kamerun Камерун
Català Camerun
Čeština Kamerun
Dansk Cameroun
Deutsch Kamerun
Ελληνικά Καμερούν
Esperanto Kameruno
Español Camerún
Eesti Kamerun
Euskara Kamerun
فارسی کامرون
Suomi Kamerun
Français Cameroun
Galego Camerún
Hausa Kamaru
עברית קמרון
Hrvatski Kamerun Камерун
Magyar Kamerun
Հայերեն Կամերուն
Bahasa Indonesia Kamerun
Italiano Camerun
日本語 カメルーン
ქართული კამერუნი
Қазақша Камерун
ខ្មែរ កាមេរូន
한국어 까메룬 카메룬
Kurdî Kamerûn
Lietuvių Kamerūnas
Latviešu Kamerūna
Македонски Камерун
မြန်မာဘာသာ ကင်မရွန်း
Nederlands Kameroen
Polski Kamerun
Português Camarões
Русский Камерун
Slovenščina Kamerun
Српски Kamerun Камерун
Svenska Kamerun
Kiswahili Kameruni
ไทย แคเมอรูน
Tagalog Kamerun
Türkçe Kamerun
Українська Камерун
Tiếng Việt Ca-mơ-run
Yorùbá Kamẹruunu

Examples

“Security officials say such a move makes it easy for Boko Haram to infiltrate Cameroon and gather vital security information.”
“He fears that in downplaying traditional Conservative causes, in changing the party to be more in tune with modern Britain, the Cameroons have in effect accepted that they won't change the country much in office.”
“Today, I spy a coalition outrider: Nick Boles, MP for Grantham, founder of Policy Exchange and the archetypal Cameroon 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 a Cameroon the man is.”
“Maude was a moderniser before modernity dawned in the Tory ranks, a Cameroon before David Cameron.”
“Mr Cameron won significantly smaller vote shares than either Theresa May or Boris Johnson. There are not many Cameroons in Britain. Outside some newspaper op-ed pages, there never were.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Cameroon scaly-tail Cameroonian Cameroonian English Cameroonian Pidgin English Cameroonianness camerostome

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