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单词 american african
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American Africann.adj.

Brit. /əˌmɛrᵻk(ə)n ˈafrᵻk(ə)n/, U.S. /əˌmɛr(ə)k(ə)n ˈæfrəkən/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: American adj., African n.
Etymology: < American adj. + African n. Compare slightly later African American n.
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).
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