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DEMERARA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Demerara mean? 

DEMERARA (noun)
  The noun DEMERARA has 5 senses:

1. a light brown raw cane sugar from Guyanaplay

2. a river in northern Guyana that flows northward into the Atlanticplay

3. a former Dutch colony in South America; now a part of Guyanaplay

4. dark rum from Guyanaplay

5. light brown cane sugar; originally from Guyanaplay

  Familiarity information: DEMERARA used as a noun is common.


 Dictionary entry details 


DEMERARA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A light brown raw cane sugar from Guyana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("demerara" is a kind of...):

cane sugar (sucrose obtained from sugar cane)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A river in northern Guyana that flows northward into the Atlantic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Demerara" is a part of...):

British Guiana; Co-operative Republic of Guyana; Guyana (a republic in northeastern South America; formerly part of the British Empire, but it achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966)


Sense 3

Meaning:

A former Dutch colony in South America; now a part of Guyana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

colony; settlement (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government)

Holonyms ("Demerara" is a part of...):

British Guiana; Co-operative Republic of Guyana; Guyana (a republic in northeastern South America; formerly part of the British Empire, but it achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966)


Sense 4

Meaning:

Dark rum from Guyana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

demerara; demerara rum

Hypernyms ("demerara" is a kind of...):

rum (liquor distilled from fermented molasses)


Sense 5

Meaning:

Light brown cane sugar; originally from Guyana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

demerara; demerara sugar

Hypernyms ("demerara" is a kind of...):

brown sugar (unrefined or only partly refined sugar)


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