demerara meaning

demerara as a noun

1. a light brown raw cane sugar from Guyana

   Type of: cane sugar

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

   Type of: river

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

   Type of: colony

4. dark rum from Guyana

   Synonyms: demerara rum

   Type of: rum

5. light brown cane sugar; originally from Guyana

   Synonyms: demerara sugar

   Type of: brown sugar

demerara in a sentence

• Add the juice of half a lime and a teaspoonful of demerara sugar.