African-American
noun/ˈæ.fɹɪ.kən əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/
Etymology
Patterned on forms such as Irish-American, popularized by Jesse Jackson and in common use since the late 1980s.
Definitions
A member of an ethnic group consisting of Americans of black African (particularly…
A member of an ethnic group consisting of Americans of black African (particularly Niger-Congo) descent.
Any black American person
Any black American person; by extension, any black person.
Pertaining to the African-American ethnicity.
- The rioters overshadowed the message of peaceful protesters on prior days: They had called for justice for Gray, a 25-year-old African-American man who died from spinal injuries after police arrested him this month.
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Black.
Of or pertaining to the culture of African-American people.
- African-American music
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for African-American. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA