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african

/af-ri-kuhn/US // ˈæf rɪ kən //UK // (ˈæfrɪkən) //

非洲人,非洲,非洲的,非洲人的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or from Africa; belonging to the Black peoples of Africa.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a native or inhabitant of Africa.
    • : a Black person or other person of African ancestry.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.

  • Ed Brooke, the first African-American Senator since Reconstruction, embraced fights with the left and right.

  • Still, for all of this, South Carolina is now represented in the U.S. Senate by Tim Scott, a Republican and an African-American.

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

  • Among African Americans, the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, or Jeremiah Wright cannot do it.

  • I looked up at sound of a startled exclamation, and beheld the round African physog of Lyn Rowan's colored mammy.

  • Mr. Ernescliffe manages him very well—used to illness on that African coast, and the doctor is very fond of him.

  • South African railways enjoy one great advantage—cheap coal for their engines.

  • The celebrated African farmer of Cedar creek, Del., died, almost 118 years of age.

  • She spoke in a strange language, no doubt some African tongue, but one which Rita understood perfectly.