demerara

Other forms of demerara

plural

demeraras·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about demerara

What does demerara mean?

demerara means "a light brown raw cane sugar from Guyana". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in demerara?

demerara has 4 syllables: de-me-ra-ra. The stress falls on "me".

What is another word for demerara?

Close synonyms include demerara rum, demerara sugar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is demerara a common word?

demerara is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.