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african-american

/af-ri-kuhnuh-mer-i-kuhn/US // ˈæf rɪ kən əˈmɛr ɪ kən //

非洲裔美国人,非洲裔美洲人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an American with Black African ancestry.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to African Americans.
    • : Af·ri·can-A·mer·i·can, occurring between the United States and Africa: Several international charities are promoting African-American cooperation in expanding access to safe drinking water.See Grammar note at Spanish American.

Examples

  • Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.

  • Have you looked around the American Dental Association website for an explanation of how fluoridation actually works?

  • The best comparison here for an American audience is, well, Internet stuff.

  • Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.

  • Sadly, it appears the American press often doesn't need any outside help when it comes to censoring themselves.

  • We prefer the American volume of Hochelaga to the Canadian one, although both are highly interesting.

  • We can readily see how this might have been, from numerous experiments made with both American and European varieties.

  • He was in early life a shipcarpenter, and subsequently American consul at Antwerp.

  • The difficulty of educating handlers of bills in distant places as to American credits.

  • But you are English, or you are American; and men of those countries never misunderstand a woman, even if she is in trouble.