AFRICAN

Pronunciation (US):

• AFRICAN (noun)
  The noun AFRICAN has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of Africa

  Familiarity information: AFRICAN used as a noun is very rare.

• AFRICAN (adjective)
  The adjective AFRICAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples

  Familiarity information: AFRICAN used as an adjective is very rare.

• AFRICAN (noun)

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("African" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "African"):

Zulu (a member of the tall Negroid people of southeast Africa living in northern Natal)

Swazi (a member of a southeast African people living in Swaziland and adjacent areas)

Sudanese (a native or inhabitant of Sudan)

South African (a native or inhabitant of South Africa)

Sierra Leonean (a native or inhabitant of Sierra Leone)

Senegalese (a native or inhabitant of Senegal)

Nigerien (a native or inhabitant of Niger)

Nigerian (a native or inhabitant of Nigeria)

Namibian (a native or inhabitant of Namibia)

Mozambican (a native or inhabitant of Mozambique)

Moroccan (a native or inhabitant of Morocco)

Tanzanian (a native or inhabitant of Tanzania)

Togolese (a native or inhabitant of Togo)

Tuareg (a member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara)

Zimbabwean (a native or inhabitant of Zimbabwe)

Zambian (a native or inhabitant of Zambia)

Zairean; Zairese (a native or inhabitant of Zaire)

Somali; Somalian (a member of a tall dark (mostly Muslim) people inhabiting Somalia)

Rwandan (a native or inhabitant of Rwanda)

Guinean (a native or inhabitant of Guinea)

Ghanian (a native or inhabitant of Ghana)

Gambian (a native or inhabitant of Gambia)

Ugandan (a native or inhabitant of Uganda)

Tunisian (a native or inhabitant of Tunisia)

Mauritanian (a native or inhabitant of Mauritania)

Malian (a native or inhabitant of Mali)

Chadian (a native or inhabitant of Chad)

Carthaginian (a native or inhabitant of ancient Carthage)

Cameroonian (a native or inhabitant of Cameroon)

Burundian (a native or inhabitant of Burundi)

Beninese (a native or inhabitant of Benin)

Bantu (a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa)

Basotho (a member of a subgroup of people who inhabit Lesotho)

Angolan (a native or inhabitant of Angola)

Algerian (a native or inhabitant of Algeria)

Eurafrican (a person of mixed European and African descent)

Chewa (a member of a Negro people of Malawi and eastern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe)

Congolese (a native or inhabitant of the Republic of the Congo)

Djiboutian (a native or inhabitant of Djibouti)

Malawian (a native or inhabitant of Malawi)

Madagascan (a native or inhabitant of Madagascar)

Libyan (a native or inhabitant of Libya)

Liberian (a native or inhabitant of Liberia)

Kenyan (a native or inhabitant of Kenya)

Gabonese (a native or inhabitant of Gabon)

Fellata; Fula; Fulah; Fulani; Fulbe (a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith)

Ewe (a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana)

Ethiopian (a native or inhabitant of Ethiopia)

Egyptian (a native or inhabitant of Egypt)

Black African (an African who is Black)

• AFRICAN (adjective)

Meaning:

Of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

African languages

Pertainym:

Africa (the second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)