English Explanatory Dictionary

African-American

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of an ethnic group consisting of Americans of black African (particularly Niger-Congo) descent.
  2. Any black American person; by extension, any black person.
adj
  1. Pertaining to the African-American ethnicity.
  2. Black.
  3. Of or pertaining to the culture of African-American people.

Pronunciation

/ˈæ.fɹɪ.kən əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-African-American.wav

Word forms

African-American African-Americans African American more African-American most African-American

Etymology

Patterned on forms such as Irish-American, popularized by Jesse Jackson and in common use since the late 1980s.

Synonyms

Afro-American Afromerican unbleached American BIPOC BME colored colored person minority nonwhite person of color black Negro nigger darky

Derived words

Africoon-Americoon
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