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Aframerican

Aframerican is the alternative form of Afro-American.

Meaning of Afro-American

Noun

Afro-American (plural Afro-Americans)

  1. (dated) A native or resident of the United States (an American) who is of African heritage.
    • That great battle was won, not because the victim of slavery was a negro, mulatto, or an Afro-American, but because the victim of slavery was a man and a brother to all other men, a child of God, and could claim with all mankind a common Father, and therefore should be recognized as an accountable...1894 September 3, Frederick Douglass, Blessings of Liberty and Education, Manassas, Virginia

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Forms of Aframerican

Noun
pluralAframericans
Adjective
comparativemore Aframerican
superlativemost Aframerican

Questions about Aframerican

What is Aframerican the alternative form of?
Aframerican is the alternative form of Afro-American.

Words near Aframerican in the dictionary

  1. afraid
  2. afraid of one's own shadow
  3. afraidly
  4. afraidness
  5. Aframax
  6. Aframerican
  7. Aframericans
  8. afrancesado
  9. afrancesadoes
  10. afrancesados
  11. Afrasia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Aframerican (page history and authors); Afro-American (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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