Africo-Americann.adj.
/ˌafrᵻkəʊəˈmɛrᵻk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈæfrəkoʊəˈmɛr(ə)k(ə)n/ Now chiefly historical.
A. n.
= African American n.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > by country of origin
American1648
African1700
High Dutch1773
Low Dutch1773
German-American1775
African American1782
Anglo-American1785
Irish-American1786
Africo-American1788
American African1826
Pennsylvania German1827
Pennsylvania Dutch1831
Afro-American1833
far-downer1834
Mexicano1847
knickerbocker1848
Chinese-American1854
Italian–American1873
Polish-American1876
Polacker1883
roundhead1895
hunk1896
Polack1898
Senegambian1900
bohunk1903
honky1904
hunyak1911
Turk1914
boho1920
Anglo1923
Euro-American1925
turkey1932
narrowback1933
nisei1934
roundheader1934
pachuco1943
pocho1944
Latino1946
Chicano1947
Mexican-American1948
Asian American1952
Amerasian1957
Chicana1966
Afrikan1972
Hispanic1972
1788 G. Clerici Let. 2 Feb. in T. Jefferson Papers (1955) XII. 556 We want dancing and raree-shows and ramadans to forget miseries and wretchedness as much as the Africo-americans want the Banjar to digest with their Kuskus the hardships of their lives.
1817 J. Torrey Portraiture Dom. Slavery 62 The sable Africo-American..shook his manacles at the conservators of the rights of man, while he was dragged through the city of Liberty.
1854 Frederick Douglass' Paper (Rochester, N.Y.) 13 Jan. The wickedness of an Irish woman's daughter, can never be used as an argument against the fitness of the Africo-American to enjoy freedom.
1895 Pacific Coast Jrnl. Homœopathy Mar. 135/2 The Africo-American lives an out-door life and so-far escapes the stagnant atmosphere of in-door life.
1904 W. K. Marshall Entering Wedge v. 48 The Anglo-Saxon and the Africo-American can not live side by side as free men.
1989 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 31 Jan. 19 In colonial days, ‘black’ was used, then ‘African’,..and a little later, ‘Africo-Americans’.
B. adj.
= African American adj.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [adjective] > by country of origin
African1722
American1761
Low Dutch1774
Pennsylvania Dutch1792
Anglo-American1797
Irish-American1820
Africo-American1825
American African1826
Afro-American1831
Polish-American1850
Chinese-American1854
Italian–American1854
Russo-American1878
African American1885
Senegambian1911
Afrikan1929
Mexican-American1948
Asian American1950
Amerasian1965
Chicano1966
Anglo1968
Tejano1978
1825 Missionary Reg. Aug. 348/2 This Convert was admitted to baptism by..one of the Africo-American Missionaries in this Colony, who was himself a Slave till he was thirty years of age.
1879 Christian Advocate 1 May 281/4 He loves an Africo-American slave as much as he did an Israelitish-Egyptian slave.
1897 Chautauquan Aug. 514/1 Dupey was the eldest and, in Africo-American dialect, the ‘lackliest’ of five sons.
1904 T. S. Griffiths Hist. Baptists New Jersey xxix. 291 Two Africo-American Baptist Churches have also grown up in Elizabeth.
2004 M. Abu-Jamal We want Freedom i. 9 Travelling the world in search of an independent ‘Africo-American’ nation-state, he left little doubt that Liberia was not the answer.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.adj.1788