African-American

短语

美国黑人

发音

US /ˈæ.fɹɪ.kən əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/

词形变化

African-Americans 复数 more African-American 比较级 most African-American 最高级

别名

African American

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A member of an ethnic group consisting of Americans of black African (particularly Niger-Congo) descent.

  2. 2.

    Any black American person; by extension, any black person.

    美国黑人

    非裔美国人

    美国 冒犯
adj.
  1. 1.

    Pertaining to the African-American ethnicity.

  2. 2.

    Black.

    美国 冒犯
  3. 3.

    Of or pertaining to the culture of African-American people.

    African-American music

词汇关系

词源

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

来源:wiktionary