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Cameroon is a country on the west coast of Africa, east of Nigeria, with the Gulf of Guinea on its south-west side. The capital is Yaoundé; Douala is the big port. People there speak many local languages, and the official languages are French and English, because the land was once split between French and British rule. The English name comes, through French, from a Portuguese name meaning “river of .” In 1472, sailors with the Portuguese explorer ão do Pó (also called Fernando Pó) were struck by how many were in the Wouri river mouth — the kind now called the Cameroon ghost shrimp — and they named it Rio dos Camarões. That name became French Cameroun, then English Cameroon. So the country-name is, in a way, a story, not a made-up English word.
組成Borrowed from French Cameroun, from Portuguese Camarões, short for Rio dos Camarões, “river of prawns.” Portuguese camarão (prawn) goes back to Latin cammārus, from Ancient Greek κάμμαρος (kámmaros).
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- Cameroonianthe word for a person from Cameroon, and for things of that country
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Cameroonname詞源 1/kæməˈɹuːn/
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A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Cameroon. Capital: Yaoundé. It also claims Ambazonia.
- Security officials say such a move makes it easy for Boko Haram to infiltrate Cameroon and gather vital security information.
Cameroonnoun詞源 1/kæməˈɹuːn/
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A sheep of a domesticated breed from West Africa.
Cameroonnoun詞源 2
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governmentpoliticsA Conservative Party member with green or social liberal leanings, supporting the policies of David Cameron.
- 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.
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