Definitions for African

African Af·ri·can

Spelling: [af-ri-kuh n]
IPA: /ˈæf rɪ kən/

African is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in African (aacfinr).

Definitions for African

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Africa.
  2. (loosely) a black or other person of African ancestry.

adjective

  1. Also, Africa. of or from Africa; belonging to the black peoples of Africa.

Origin of African

Latin Āfricānus, equivalent to Āfric(us) Afric + -ānus -an; compare Middle English Aufrican, Old English Africanas (nominative plural)

Examples for African

Only three things could here interest these seasoned African travellers.

The Pew poll also found most African Americans expect relations between police and minorities will actually get worse.

The fact that many African Americans fear the police more than our white counterparts says our nation is still a work in progress.

To us in the North, the African is a comparatively negligible factor.

African animals are subject to these strange, blind panics, especially at night.

The sophisticated African has ceased to be surprised at anything a white man may do.

Finally, we have a major film on civil rights in which African Americans are the heroes in their own story.

Branch grew up in Queens, NY, the daughter of an African American man and a Japanese woman.

Much more common is the African American lesbian couple in the Deep South raising children at or below the poverty line.

The hot, searching, stifling African day took possession of the world.

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