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单词 pan-african
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pan-Africanadj.

Brit. /ˌpanˈafrᵻk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌpænˈæfrək(ə)n/
Forms: 1800s– pan-African, 1900s– pan-Afrikan. Also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pan- comb. form, African adj.
Etymology: < pan- comb. form + African adj.
1. Of, relating to, representing, or involving all the peoples or countries of Africa; of, relating to, representing, or advocating the representation of all people of African birth or descent.With quot. 1899 cf. pan-Africander adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > [adjective]
African1703
pan-African1899
Africanistic1904
Afrikan1929
Afrocentric1992
1899 Times 7 Oct. 11/1 The alarms expressed by the war party and Press of a pan-African Boer combination against Great Britain.
1900 Daily News 16 July 7/5 A pan-African Conference will be held at the Westminster Town Hall on July 23,..and will be attended and addressed by those of African descent from all parts of the British Empire, the United States of America, Abyssinia, Liberia, Hayti, &c.
1944 Ann. Reg. 1943 132 Sir Godfrey Huggins, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia,..foreshadowed a possible Pan-African Council to coordinate problems common to African countries.
1967 Freedomways 7 174 It is only by planning along Pan-African lines ourselves can Africa hope to free herself.
1975 C. E. Griffith Afr. Dream viii. 105 The pan-African advocate was disturbed by contemporary works which assigned Africans last place among the three major races of the world.
1994 Madison (New Jersey) Eagle 8 Sept. 3/4 The first Ujamaa Festival to be held on campus..will focus on Pan-African traditions and culture.
2. Geology. Formed or occurring approx. 500 million years ago in Africa (during the late Precambrian or early Palaeozoic), a period during which there was significant orogenesis in the area; designating, of, or relating to this period of orogenesis.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > tectonization or diastrophism > [adjective] > orogenesis > specific
hercynian1895
Laramide1895
Caledonian1903
Armorican1906
Variscan1906
Taconic1908
Saalian1931
Pfalzian1932
Shamvaian1947
pan-African1964
1964 W. Q. Kennedy in Univ. Leeds Res. Inst. Afr. Geol. 8th Ann. Rep. 48/2 This major process of structural differentiation affected, virtually, the entire continent at the beginning of the Paleozoic Era and may consequently be designated the Pan-African Thermo-Tectonic Episode.
1974 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 82 301 (title) The Nama group in South West Africa and its relationship to the pan-African geosyncline.
1990 Jrnl. Petrol. 31 1287 The suite was covered by Dokhan-type pyroclastic rocks and was later intruded by voluminous, calc-alkaline granodiorite–adamellite complexes of Pan-African age.
1995 Mineral. Mag. 59 130 Here we present results of an investigation on chlorites occurring within four, mostly Pan-African, igneous rock suites.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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