Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to Africa or its peoples, languages, or cultures.
- n. A native or inhabitant of Africa.
- n. A person of African descent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- n. A native of the continent, or in ancient times of the province, of Africa.
- n. A member of the black African race; a negro.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to Africa.
- n. A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to Africa.
- n. A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples
- n. a native or inhabitant of Africa
Etymologies
- As a noun in Old English as Africanas "Africans" (only plural). From Latin Africānae. In Middle English as Aufrican . Early Modern English Aphricane, Africans. The adjective appears in the 16th century, as Affricane, Africane, African. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I prefer to be called black or african because all blacks originated from African.”
“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)”
“• 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. \”
“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.”
“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
“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
“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:
“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.”
“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
“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.”
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