Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Africa or its peoples, languages, or cultures.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Africa.
- noun A person of African ancestry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Africa: either to the continent of that name, or
- to the region about Carthage, the ancient Roman province of Africa.
- Of or belonging to the black race of Africa; characteristic of or peculiar to negroes: as, African features; African cheerfulness.
- noun A native of the continent, or in ancient times of the province, of Africa.
- noun A member of the black African race; a negro.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Africa.
- adjective a fiber prepared from the leaves of the
Sanseviera Guineensis , a plant found in Africa and India. - adjective a tropical American plant (
Tagetes erecta ). - adjective a timber furnished by
Oldfieldia Africana , used in ship building. - adjective see
African-American .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
Africa . - noun A native of
Africa ; also oneethnologically belonging to an African race.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples
- noun a native or inhabitant of Africa
Etymologies
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Examples
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I prefer to be called black or african because all blacks originated from African.
Bossip 2010
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So because you have a dead african on the screen all the sudden its racsist. (which the last time I checked the Japanese had no hard feelings twords any African, having lived there several years)
G4TV - The Feed 2009
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• He was cited in the London Sunday Times as one of the 1,000 \ "Makers of the Twentieth Century, \" for defining \ "a modern African literature that was truly African\" and thereby making \ "a major contribution to world literature. \"
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African Education Society_, p. 7.] [Footnote 8: _Ibid_., pp. 7 and 8 and _African Repository_, vol. iv., p. 375.] [Footnote 9: What would become of this plan depended upon the changing fortunes of the men concerned.
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War Carter Godwin Woodson 1912
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Nevertheless, the first political question from almost everyone was some form of "do you really think America can elect a black man (the term African-American does not seem to be in use) as president?"
Eric Schiller: What Is Left Of Our Reputation Is Floating In The Toilet 2008
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Now instead of Bush Republicans, substitute the term African-Americans, or Latinos, or Jews, or homosexuals, and you can see how this situation might be addressed under different circumstances.
Eric J. Weiner: It's Time to Stop the Media's Republican Affirmative Action Program 2008
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This, and the white emigree from Africa to America point to the absurdity of both the term African-American and the squeamishness of people who, for some reason, cannot say, “black.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » OK, Parse This for an Israeli or Armenian Lawyer Who Works at Your Firm: 2007
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I've always disliked the term African-American it's far to unwieldy although the PC people of the world have made it necessary to use.
Name Follies 2004
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This paper was also the first, at the time, to introduce the use of the term African in place of "Bantu" and other derogatory terms used to refer to indigenous people.
ADDRESS BY DEPUTY PRESIDENT ZUMA AT THE EVENING POST'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS 2000
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Meanwhile, the 14 Canadian relief agencies under the name African Emergency Aid, the new mechanism for distributing aid in Africa, are looking for an increase in Ottawa's pledge of $15-million in dollar-for- dollar grants to match the amounts private agencies are raising.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Donald Grant 2011
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