African-American

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A member of an ethnic group consisting of Americans of black African (particularly Niger-Congo) descent.
  2. Any black American person; by extension, any black person. US,broadly,offensive,proscribed,sometimes
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to the African-American ethnicity.
    — The rioters overshadowed the message of peaceful protesters on prior days: They had called for justice for Gray, a 25-year-old African-American man who died from spinal injuries after police arrested him this month.
  2. Black. US,broadly,offensive,proscribed,sometimes
  3. Of or pertaining to the culture of African-American people.
    — African-American music

词形变化

African-Americans plural African American alternative more African-American comparative most African-American superlative African American alternative

词源

词源 1
Patterned on forms such as Irish-American, popularized by Jesse Jackson and in common use since the late 1980s.
词源 2
Patterned on forms such as Irish-American, popularized by Jesse Jackson and in common use since the late 1980s.
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