Definitions for Cameroons

Cameroons Cam·e·roons

Spelling: [kam-uh-roonz]
IPA: /ˌkæm əˈrunz/

Cameroons is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 625 anagrams from letters in Cameroons (acemnoors).

Definitions for Cameroons

noun

  1. German Kamerun. a region in W Africa: a German protectorate 1884–1919; divided in 1919 into British and French mandates.
  2. Also called British Cameroons. the NW part of this region: a British mandate 1919–46 and trusteeship 1946–61; by a 1961 plebiscite the S part (Southern Cameroons) joined the United Republic of Cameroon and the N part (Northern Cameroons) joined Nigeria.
  3. Also, Cameroun. Official name United Republic of Cameroon. an independent republic in W Africa: formed 1960 by the French trusteeship of Cameroun; Southern Cameroons incorporated as a self-governing province 1961. 183,350 sq. mi. (474,877 sq. km). Capital: Yaoundé.
  4. an active volcano in W Cameroon: highest peak on the coast of W Africa. 13,370 feet (4075 meters).

Examples for Cameroons

For some mysterious reason they again took ship and came to the Cameroons, where he learned German.

The Cameroons, larger than the Fatherland, took much longer to subdue, and the operations were of a more arduous nature.

They afterwards came to be called Cameroons, and are mostly so spoken of in the books of English buccaneers.

In the Bimbia country the low coast is at its minimum breadth, the foot of the Cameroons Mountain nearly reaching the sea.

The principal work of the winter was the reduction of the Cameroons.

There are, however, any quantity on Cameroons of the winged Javan variety, but these have so far not been exported.

The little, black and red-spotted Cameroons sheep, from the western coast of Africa, have not a trace of wool.

Erzerum had balanced Kut, and the Cameroons had ceased to be a German land.

"They would have taken me for the Cameroons, but somebody had to stay," he said quietly.

In the Cameroons, also, the life of a person is believed to be sympathetically bound up with that of the tree.

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