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Afropolitan

Afropolitan noun: a multicultural, cosmopolitan African person.

Noun

Afropolitan (plural Afropolitans)

  1. A multicultural, cosmopolitan African person.
    • Rather, abjection is revealing of the processes of exclusion that are central in the making of non-abject – in this case, white European or privileged Afropolitan – subjectivities.2021, Anna-Leena Toivanen, Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures, page 172

Synonyms of Afropolitan

Forms of Afropolitan

pluralAfropolitans

Origin of Afropolitan

From Afro- + (cosmo)politan.

Words formed from Afropolitan

Questions about Afropolitan

What does Afropolitan mean?
Afropolitan means a multicultural, cosmopolitan African person.
What part of speech is Afropolitan?
Afropolitan is a noun.
What is the plural of Afropolitan?
The plural of Afropolitan is Afropolitans.

Words near Afropolitan in the dictionary

  1. Afrophobia
  2. Afrophobic
  3. Afrophone
  4. afropithecine
  5. afropithecines
  6. Afropolitan
  7. Afropolitanism
  8. Afropolitans
  9. Afropop
  10. Afropunk
  11. afrormosia

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