African
['æfrɪk(ə)n] or ['æfrɪkən]
Definition
(noun.) a native or inhabitant of Africa.
(adj.) of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples; 'African languages' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to Africa.
(n.) A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
Typist: Wilhelmina
Definition
adj. pertaining to Africa—also Af′ric.—ns. Af′rican a native of Africa; Africand′er one born of white parents in Cape Colony or other parts of South Africa.
Editor: Sweeney
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A nigger that votes our way.
Checker: Witt
Examples
- We have great fleets in the Mediterranean, but they seldom touch at African ports. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was taken on his return home from the African station, where he had suffered from the fever of the country. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There remained this way, this awful African process, to be fulfilled. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is the statement of missionaries, that, of all races of the earth, none have received the Gospel with such eager docility as the African. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- This morning at breakfast he pointed out of the window and said: Do you see that there hill out there on that African coast? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He saw vividly with his spirit the grey, forward-stretching face of the negro woman, African and tense, abstracted in utter physical stress. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He hated the sheer African thing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The Hudson's Bay company, before their misfortunes in the late war, had been much more fortunate than the Royal African company. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This pretended African speech was an excellent parody of one delivered by Mr. Jackson, of Georgia. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He remembered the African fetishes he had seen at Halliday's so often. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The desire and yearning of my soul is for an African _nationality_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- So, Watson, said he, suddenly, you do not propose to invest in South African securities? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The woman who had been advertised by the name of Hagar was a regular African in feature and figure. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I don't know whether you happen to have read many books of African Travel, Mr Rokesmith? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- African ditto. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- How far, in their inverted culture, had these West Africans gone beyond phallic knowledge? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It appears also to have been known by the Hindoos and the Africans. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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