AFRICAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does African mean? 

• 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.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFRICAN (noun)

Sense 1

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"):

Tunisian (a native or inhabitant of Tunisia)

Mozambican (a native or inhabitant of Mozambique)

Namibian (a native or inhabitant of Namibia)

Nigerian (a native or inhabitant of Nigeria)

Nigerien (a native or inhabitant of Niger)

Senegalese (a native or inhabitant of Senegal)

Sierra Leonean (a native or inhabitant of Sierra Leone)

South African (a native or inhabitant of South Africa)

Sudanese (a native or inhabitant of Sudan)

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

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)

Moroccan (a native or inhabitant of Morocco)

Ugandan (a native or inhabitant of Uganda)

Gambian (a native or inhabitant of Gambia)

Ghanian (a native or inhabitant of Ghana)

Guinean (a native or inhabitant of Guinea)

Rwandan (a native or inhabitant of Rwanda)

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

Xhosa (a member of the Negroid people of southern South Africa)

Zairean; Zairese (a native or inhabitant of Zaire)

Zambian (a native or inhabitant of Zambia)

Zimbabwean (a native or inhabitant of Zimbabwe)

Zulu (a member of the tall Negroid people of eastern South Africa; some live in KwaZulu-Natal under the traditional clan system but many now work in the cities)

Berber (a member of an indigenous people of northern Africa)

Djiboutian (a native or inhabitant of Djibouti)

Eurafrican (a person of mixed European and African descent)

Algerian (a native or inhabitant of Algeria)

Angolan (a native or inhabitant of Angola)

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

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

Beninese (a native or inhabitant of Benin)

Burundian (a native or inhabitant of Burundi)

Cameroonian (a native or inhabitant of Cameroon)

Carthaginian (a native or inhabitant of ancient Carthage)

Chadian (a native or inhabitant of Chad)

Cewa; Chewa; Chichewa (a member of the Bantu-speaking people of Malawi and eastern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe)

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

Black African (an African who is Black)

Egyptian (a native or inhabitant of Egypt)

Ethiopian (a native or inhabitant of Ethiopia)

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

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

Gabonese (a native or inhabitant of Gabon)

Kenyan (a native or inhabitant of Kenya)

Liberian (a native or inhabitant of Liberia)

Libyan (a native or inhabitant of Libya)

Madagascan (a native or inhabitant of Madagascar)

Malawian (a native or inhabitant of Malawi)

Malian (a native or inhabitant of Mali)

Mauritanian (a native or inhabitant of Mauritania)

Derivation:

African (of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples)

• AFRICAN (adjective)

Sense 1

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 to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

Derivation:

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

African (a native or inhabitant of Africa)

 Context examples 

Combretastatin A4 phosphate comes from the African bush willow.

(combretastatin A4 phosphate, NCI Dictionary)

An inhibitor of microtubule polymerization derived from the South African willow bush which causes mitotic arrest and selectively targets and reduces or destroys existing blood vessels, causing decreased tumor blood supply.

(Combretastatin A-4, NCI Thesaurus)

Discovered in 1964, this virus has been associated with Burkitt's lymphoma in South African children and with nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Asian populations.

(Epstein-Barr virus, NCI Thesaurus)

A water-soluble prodrug derived from the African bush willow (Combretum caffrum) with antineoplastic activity.

(Fosbretabulin, NCI Thesaurus)

The tromethamine salt form of prodrug fosbretabulin, a water-soluble phosphate derivative of a stilbenoid phenol derived from the African bush willow (Combretum caffrum) with antineoplastic activities.

(Fosbretabulin Tromethamine, NCI Thesaurus)

The disodium salt of a water-soluble phosphate derivative of a natural stilbenoid phenol derived from the African bush willow (Combretum caffrum) with potential vascular disrupting and antineoplastic activities.

(Fosbretabulin Disodium, NCI Thesaurus)

A stilbenoid phenol, originally isolated from the bark of the African bush willow tree Combretum caffrum, with vascular disrupting and antineoplastic activities.

(Combretastatin, NCI Thesaurus)

The cephalostatins comprise a family of more than 30 trisdecacyclic bissteroidal pyrazines with extreme cytotoxicity against human tumors, isolated from the African marine worm Cephalodiscus gilchristi.

(Cephalostatin, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes a person with African ancestral origins who self identifies, or is identified, as African.

(African, NCI Thesaurus)

It is most commonly seen in men of African descent.

(Acne Keloid, NCI Thesaurus)