Cameroonian
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- noun
- /ˌkæməˈrunɪən/
- Then the Cameroonians escorted us onto planes, out of the country.
- elderly Cameroonians
Examples
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Both urban and rural Cameroonians began to feel the effects of a national crisis in the economy toward the end of the 1980s.
Academic text (2001) -
There were 11 males and 14 females. 24 (96%) were Cameroonians, and one was Lebanese.
Academic text (2007) -
At least one other Cameroonian is in pretrial detention on the basis of the same article.
Blog text (17) -
The United States failed to protect Cameroonian asylum seekers even while they were on US soil.
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It is as if these 3,000 people managed to touch the lives of every single Cameroonian!
Blog text (24) -
This time, Cameroonians were the target, a community whose networks were said to supply almost 75 percent of Gabon's food needs in 1981.
Academic text (1998) -
Most of the Anglophone Cameroonians who received their college degrees in the sixties said they had turned down opportunities to study in America because, with an American degree, they would have been underclassified in the Cameroonian civil service.
Academic text (1992) -
Many Cameroonians gathered in the capital to protest against government policies.
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The Cameroonian community in New York often holds cultural events to celebrate their heritage.
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As a Cameroonian, she proudly shared stories of her homeland with her friends.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cameroonian comes from the country name Cameroon, which itself comes from the Portuguese word camarões meaning 'shrimp' because early explorers called a local river the 'river of shrimp'. The ending -ian means 'person from', like in Canadian, so Cameroonian means 'a person from Cameroon'.