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Pan-African

Pan-African adjective: of or relating to Pan-Africanism.

Adjective (1)

Pan-African (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to Pan-Africanism.
    • The young men studying at your uncle’s mission used to speak French to each other both in delight and in order to show off their erudition, before the government declared that such erudition, and the Pan-African interaction it engendered, was unnecessary for natives and banished the language from...2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 284

Noun

Pan-African (plural Pan-Africans)

  1. A supporter of Pan-Africanism.

Adjective (2) capitalized: pan-African

pan-African (not comparable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Pan-African.

Forms of Pan-African

Adjective
alternative formpan-African
Noun
pluralPan-Africans

Origin of Pan-African

From pan- + African.

Questions about Pan-African

What does Pan-African mean?
Pan-African means of or relating to Pan-Africanism.
What part of speech is Pan-African?
Pan-African can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Pan-African in the dictionary

  1. pan theism
  2. pan theisms
  3. Pan's-pipes
  4. pan-
  5. Pan-Abrahamic
  6. Pan-African
  7. Pan-Africanism
  8. Pan-Africanist
  9. Pan-Africanists
  10. Pan-Africans
  11. Pan-Altaism

Source and license

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