Word.ws English Dictionary

Africa time

Africa time is the alternative form of African time.

Meaning of African time

Noun

African time (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, slang, sometimes) A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Africans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.

Questions about Africa time

What is Africa time the alternative form of?
Africa time is the alternative form of African time.

Words near Africa time in the dictionary

  1. Afrena
  2. afresh
  3. afribumab
  4. Afric
  5. Africa
  6. Africa time
  7. Africa-Eurasia
  8. Africa-wide
  9. African
  10. African American
  11. African American History Month

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Africa time (page history and authors); African time (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Africa time.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/africa_time. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.