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Afrocosmopolitan

Afrocosmopolitan noun: synonym of Afropolitan.

Noun

Afrocosmopolitan (plural Afrocosmopolitans)

  1. Synonym of Afropolitan.
    • As Austerlitz says, their music was “gutbucket and sophisticated,” quintessentially Afrocosmopolitan. Machito and Bauzá were heavily influenced by the innovations of Arsenio Rodriguez, and brought the conga drum and clave to the fore in[…]2016 June 16, Njoroge Njoroge, Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN
    • This was primarily a jibe at the atavistic cultural separatism underpinning apartheid which, among other things, defined itself against the urban, Afrocosmopolitan modernity the Voice championed." Yet, as the editors pointed out,[…]2017, Peter D. McDonald, Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 174
    Synonyms:
    Afropolitan

Synonyms of Afrocosmopolitan

Forms of Afrocosmopolitan

pluralAfrocosmopolitans

Origin of Afrocosmopolitan

From Afro- + cosmopolitan.

Questions about Afrocosmopolitan

What does Afrocosmopolitan mean?
Afrocosmopolitan means synonym of Afropolitan.
What part of speech is Afrocosmopolitan?
Afrocosmopolitan is a noun.
What is the plural of Afrocosmopolitan?
The plural of Afrocosmopolitan is Afrocosmopolitans.

Words near Afrocosmopolitan in the dictionary

  1. Afrocentrism
  2. Afrocentrist
  3. Afrocentrists
  4. Afrocoon
  5. Afrocoons
  6. Afrocosmopolitan
  7. Afrocosmopolitans
  8. afrocrat
  9. afrocrats
  10. afrodescendant
  11. afrodescendants

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