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africans

africans is the plural of african.

Meaning of african

Noun

African (plural Africans)

  1. A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
    • Africans constitute significantly growing populations not only in major urban centers such as New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, and Atlanta but also in small and midsize cities in states such as Ohio and Maine.2007, African Immigrant Religions in America, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    Aethiopian, Afro-, Ethiop, Ethiope, Ethiopian, Libyan, Nubian

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Noun capitalized: Africans

Africans

  1. (plural) plural of African

Phrases with africans

Questions about africans

What is africans the plural of?
Africans is the plural of african.
What part of speech is africans?
Africans is a noun.

Words near africans in the dictionary

  1. Africanlike
  2. Africanness
  3. Africannesses
  4. Africanoid
  5. Africanoids
  6. africans
  7. Africas
  8. Africatown
  9. Africk
  10. Africo
  11. Africo-American

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Adapted from Wiktionary: africans (page history and authors); Africans (page history and authors); African (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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