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African-Americans

African-Americans is the plural of African-American.

Meaning of African-American

Noun

African-American (plural African-Americans)

  1. A member of an ethnic group consisting of Americans of black African (particularly Niger-Congo) descent.
    Synonyms:
    Afro-American, Afromerican, unbleached American, BIPOC, BME, colored, colored person, minority, nonwhite, person of color
  2. (US, broadly, offensive, proscribed, sometimes) Any black American person; by extension, any black person.

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Questions about African-Americans

What is African-Americans the plural of?
African-Americans is the plural of African-American.

Words near African-Americans in the dictionary

  1. African't
  2. African'ts
  3. African-American
  4. African-American English
  5. African-American Vernacular English
  6. African-Americans
  7. African-like
  8. Africana
  9. Africander
  10. Africanderism
  11. Africanderisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: African-Americans (page history and authors); African-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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