Noun: afro
Sample Sentences
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sheʼd been unmissable sitting in the front row of the lecture theatre with a crazy-ass afro and stunning face [2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 335:]
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The Ghanaian government employed several Afros, as many of the expatriates called themselves, downplaying their Americanness, in ideological and infrastructure-building occupations. [2012, Kevin K. Gates, American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era, University of North Carolina Press (2006), pages 142–143:]
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At the height of the American civil rights agitation, a number of members of the Black Panther movement moved to Tanzania, and lived outside Arusha where they formed a community, calling themselves ‘’Afros.’’ [2022, Beatrice Materu, “The African Americans who chose to return to Africa”, in The EastAfrican, page 1:]
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Afrodescendants (or simply Afros) are the descendants of Africans who were dispersed. [2022, Jun Takahara, “Say It Loud — I’m Afro and I’m Proud: Why we need to replace our racial identity labels with (pan-)ethnic ones”, in Medium, page 1:]
Nouns inflected like afro
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Afro-. In relation to the sense 2, see latino and anglo.
Verbs referencing "afro"
Dutch Nouns
afro, Finnish Nouns
afro, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
afro.