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Afrikan

Afrikan is the alternative form of African.

Meaning of African

Adjective

African (comparative more African, superlative most African)

  1. Of or pertaining to Africa.
    • Spain’s Melilla, one of two small exclaves of EU land on the African continent, has long been the strongest distillation of fortress Europe.2022 March 10, Daniel Howden, “Europe has rediscovered compassion for refugees – but only if they’re white”, in The Guardian
  2. Black; (dated, offensive) synonym of negroid.
    • The truth is that I know the guy had African skin and a shirt of some sort.

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Questions about Afrikan

What is Afrikan the alternative form of?
Afrikan is the alternative form of African.

Words near Afrikan in the dictionary

  1. afriit
  2. afriits
  3. Afrika
  4. Afrikaans
  5. Afrikaansness
  6. Afrikan
  7. Afrikander
  8. Afrikanderdom
  9. Afrikanderism
  10. Afrikanderisms
  11. Afrikanders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Afrikan (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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