Word Type

Noun

Adjective

Adjective

The word "african" can be used as noun, adjective and adjective.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

Affrilachia Affrilachian Afrabian African American Vernacular English African Latin African Lily African Lion Dog African Lion Hound African Romance African Shorthair African Union African Zionism African anteater African baobab African barbet African broadbill African buffalo African bullfrog African cherry orange African civet African crake African crested porcupine African custard apple African elephant African emerald cuckoo African ginger African glass catfish African golf African harrier-hawk African hemp African hobby African horse sickness African hunting dog African jack African lethargy African linden African linsang African long-tailed shrike African marigold African massage African milk barrel African milk tree African millet African myrrh African oak African palm civet African pear African pearwood African penguin African pygmy goat African sand fox African skimmer African spotted creeper African spurred tortoise African sugar cane African swine fever virus African teak African time African violet African walnut African warbler African whitewood African wild ass African wild donkey African't African-American African-American English African-like Africanesque Africaness Africanfuturism Africanisation Africanish Africanism Africanist Africanistic Africanity Africanization Africanize Africanjujuism Africanlike Africanness Africanoid Africoon Africoon-Americoon Africoonia Africoonian Africunt Afrimerican Afrocoon Afropean Apefrica Apefrican Blafrican Central African Central African Federation Central African Republic East African Eurafrican Eurasiafrican Halfrican Indo-African North African South African West African hemorrhagic fever animal African trypanosomiasis human African trypanosomiasis southern African frilled shark

Derived From

africa

Etymologically Related To

aphricane

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

actor doer human inhabitant man person worker

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

Algerian Ambazonian Angolan Beninese Beninois Bissau-Guinean Botswanan Burkinabe Burundian Cameroonian Cape Verdean Carthaginian Central African Ceutan Chadian Comoran Congolese Congolese Djiboutian East African Egyptian Equatoguinean Equatorial Guinean Eritrean Ethiopian Ethiopian Gabonese Gambian Ghanaian Guinean Ivorian Kenyan Lesothan Liberian Libyan Maghrebi Maghrebi Mahoran Malagasy Malawian Malian Mauritanian Mauritian Melillan Moroccan Mozambican Mozambican Namibian Nigerian Nigerien North African Reunionese Rwandan Saharan Santomean Sao Tomean Senegalese Seychellois Sierra Leonean Somali Somalian Somalilander South African South Sudanese Sudanese Sudanian Swazi São Toméan Tanzanian Togolese Tunisian Ugandan Ugandan West African Zairean Zambian Zimbabwean Zimbabwean sub-Saharan

Type Of (IsA)

human minority person person person with nationality

Related Terms

africa ethnologically

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.