单词 | american african |
释义 | American Africann.adj. Originally and chiefly U.S. A. n. An American of black African origin or descent; an African American. In early use frequently in the context of the resettlement of freed American slaves in Africa during the 19th cent., and occasionally referring to the descendants of freed American slaves in Liberia: see Americo-Liberian n. at Americo- comb. form 3. ΘΚΠ 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 1826 Aurora & Franklin (Philadelphia) Gaz. 31 Oct. There is on the coast of Africa, a small community of American Africans, professing the Christian religion, speaking the English language, and enjoying..the advantages of a free and liberal government. 1836 Christian Advocate 15 Feb. 55/1 We read in the laws of those States where slavery prevails, that..enactments and laws, deliberately framed by legislative councils and congresses, are the measures by which the portion of American Africans is meted out. 1863 W. D. Kelley in Congress. Globe 29 Jan. 606/3 Is the life of the negro more sacred than that of the white man? Why should not American Africans encounter the power of the enemy and the malaria of the swamps? 1901 Friend 1 June 364/2 No white man can own land in Liberia, nor hold office, nor vote... Each adult American African is allowed to draw or select ten acres of farm land. 1934 Crisis July 197/1 He [sc. Marcus Garvey] built up a romantic past in Africa, and exhorted the masses of American-Africans to return to the land of their fathers. 1970 Negro Digest Jan. 60/2 The publicized enmity between American Africans and West Indian Africans and between the Western Hemisphere Africans and the Africans of our motherland has certainly been a vast and successful propaganda ploy. 1997 R. Hopkins Educating Black Males i. 2 Historically.., public schools in the United States have not contributed to the achievement of liberation for American Africans or for other minority populations. B. adj. Designating or relating to American Africans. ΘΚΠ 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 1826 National Gaz. & Literary Reg. (Philadelphia) 7 Nov. A letter from Monrovia, (American African Settlement,) dated August 12th, states that negotiations had been entered into with the Chiefs of Cape Mount. 1837 N.-Y. Spectator 17 Apr. Among other evidences of the advancement of those little American-African communities.., we have noted with interest the proceedings of a public meeting held at Monrovia. 1856 N.-Y. Tribune 10 Dec. 4/3 Will not Charleston remember the year 1820, when..the American-African population were under the influence of religious ecstacy? 1903 Libr. World 5 164 Mr. Dunbar, as a highly talented and well-educated member of the American-African race, has written from his own experience. 1998 M. J. Lupton M. Angelou: Crit. Compan. 48 Tubman [sc. the president of Liberia], recalling and naming his American African heritage, requests that she sing a Negro spiritual, ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’. 2011 Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, Kentucky) (Nexis) 26 Feb. I think in the American-African population.., the church is really the center of the neighborhood and the community. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1826 |
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