Usually means: Ethnic group of African descent.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word African-American:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. African-American: Merriam-Webster
  2. African-American, African-American: Collins English Dictionary
  3. African-American: Vocabulary.com
  4. African-American, african-american: Wordnik
  5. African-American: Wiktionary
  6. African-American: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. African-American: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. african-american: Dictionary.com
  9. african-american: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. African-American: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. African-american: Rhymezone
  12. african-american: FreeDictionary.org
  13. african-american: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. African-American: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. African-American: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. African-American: Medical dictionary
  3. African-American: Drug Medical Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A member of an ethnic group consisting of Americans of black African descent.
▸ noun:  (US, loosely, proscribed, sometimes offensive) Any black American person; by extension, any black person.
▸ adjective:  (of a person) Pertaining to the African-American ethnicity.
▸ adjective:  (US, loosely, proscribed, sometimes offensive, of a person) Black.
▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to the culture of African-American people.

Similar:
black, Afro-American, Afromerican, Afrimerican, African, Afro-Indian, Afrocoon, ebony, Africoonian, Afro-Arab, more...

Opposite:
Caucasian, white, non-black

Phrases:
African-American music, African-American Vernacular English, African-American culture, African-American history, African-American names, more...



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Similar:
black, Afro-American, Afromerican, Afrimerican, African, Afro-Indian, Afrocoon, ebony, Africoonian, Afro-Arab, more...

Opposite:
Caucasian, white, non-black

Phrases:
African-American music, African-American Vernacular English, African-American culture, African-American history, African-American names, African-American literature, African-American English, more...



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