亚洲网紅露点

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African

[ af-ri-kuhn ]

adjective

  1. of or from Africa; belonging to the Black peoples of Africa.


noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Africa.
  2. (loosely) a Black person or other person of African ancestry.

African

/ 藞忙蹿谤瑟办蓹苍 /

adjective

  1. denoting or relating to Africa or any of its peoples, languages, nations, etc
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a native, inhabitant, or citizen of any of the countries of Africa
  2. a member or descendant of any of the peoples of Africa, esp a Black person
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 础蹿顎价颈路肠补苍路苍别蝉蝉 noun
  • 颈苍顎卼别谤-础蹿顎价颈路肠补苍 adjective
  • 苍辞苍-础蹿顎价颈路肠补苍 adjective noun
  • 辫谤辞路础蹿顎价颈路肠补苍 adjective noun
  • 辫蝉别耻顎卍辞-础蹿顎价颈路肠补苍 adjective noun
  • 迟谤补苍蝉-础蹿顎价颈路肠补苍 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of African1

First recorded before 1000 for noun, 1540鈥60 for adjective; Middle English noun Affrican, Aufrican 鈥渁n inhabitant of North Africa or the Roman province of Africa (approximately modern Tunisia),鈥 Old English noun Africanas 鈥淎fricans鈥 (accusative plural), from Late Latin 膧蹿谤颈肠腻苍耻蝉 鈥渁n inhabitant of Africa,鈥 from Latin adjective 膧蹿谤颈肠腻苍耻蝉 鈥減ertaining to Africa, African,鈥 from 膧蹿谤颈肠补 (short for terra 膧蹿谤颈肠补 鈥淎frican land鈥) 鈥渢he continent of Africa, the Roman province of Africa,鈥 a derivative of 膧蹿谤墨, plural of adjective and noun 膧蹿别谤 ( 膧fra, 膧frum ) 鈥減ertaining to Africa, African,鈥 as a noun 鈥渁n inhabitant of North Africa鈥; further etymology uncertain; possibly akin to Phoenician 示补蹿补谤 鈥渄ust鈥; possibly the name of a local Libyan tribe ancestral to the Berbers
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Archbishop Gallagher remembered the time the Pope wanted to visit the Central African Republic and a meeting at which many advisers told him it was too dangerous to go.

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Outside, under the warm April sunshine, groups of joyous African pilgrims in flashy head wraps ate gelato by the Bernini fountain, seagulls circling overhead.

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Stylistically, Simon smoothly moves from charismatic symphonic writing through a wide range of African American musical styles, leaving improvisational room for the vocal soloists.

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鈥淎 lot of community health centers have been scraping their websites and taking words like 鈥榯rans鈥 and 鈥楢frican American鈥 off their websites.

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South African exports to Tanzania of various fruits, including apples and grapes, will be hit.

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