African-American
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African-American
- /ˈæ.fɹɪ.kən əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/
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Patterned on forms such as Irish-American, popularized by Jesse Jackson and in common use since the late 1980s.
noun African-Americans · African American
- A member of an ethnic group consisting of Americans of black African (particularly Niger-Congo) descent.
- Any black American person; by extension, any black person.
adjective more African-American · most African-American · African American
- Of a 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.
- Black.
- Of or pertaining to the culture of African-American people. African-American music
