Cameroon

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kæməˈruːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

From Portuguese Rio dos Camarões ("river of prawns")

Full definition of Cameroon

Proper noun

1. Country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Cameroon.

Hypernyms

• Subsahara

Derived terms

• Cameroonian

Alteration of Cameron.

Noun

1. (UK, politics) A Conservative Party member with green or social liberal leanings, supporting the policies of David Cameron.
• 2007-03-21, Andy Beckett, The Cameroons, 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.
• 2010-09-13, Iain Martin, Nick Boles: The Coalition’s Cameroon Outrider, 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.
• 2012-03-30, James Chapman, Gorgeous George and why Ed Miliband must now pray Ken Livingstone wins London, Maude was a moderniser before modernity dawned in the Tory ranks, a Cameroon before David Cameron.