Afro-Caribbeanadj.n.
/ˌafrəʊˌkarᵻˈbiːən/, U.S. /ˈˌæfroʊkəˈrɪbiən/, /ˈˌæfroʊˈkɛrəˌbiən/ A. adj.
Of, relating to, or designating a person of African descent living in or coming from the Caribbean (esp. the West Indies), or the culture, way of life, or characteristic style of music of these people.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [adjective]
Afro-Caribbean1901
West Indian1961
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [adjective] > qualities of music generally
wanton1583
martial1609
hesychastic1694
systaltic1694
figureless1887
ethnic1912
novelty1915
treacly1930
Afro1938
soft-focused1942
Afro-Caribbean1947
pop1956
toppy1956
shit-kicking1961
spacy1967
prog1976
loungy1977
1901 Detroit Med. Jrnl. 26 July 101/1 These remedies, always jealously guarded by their custodians, whether Afro-Caribbean myal doctor or Indian peiman.
1947 Billboard 8 Mar. 106/3 She captures on wax the West Indies chants for this package of Afro-Caribbean songs and rhythms.
1955 Times 15 Mar. 6/6 Dr. C. J. K. Piliso, president of the Birmingham Afro-Caribbean Association.
1976 Daily Times (Lagos) 26 Aug. 25/1 Among items to be performed are traditional African music,..Afro-Latin-American music, Afro-Caribbean music and Australasian music.
1982 Amer. Speech 57 238 The Afro-Caribbean Creole hypothesis about the origin of the dialect [sc. vernacular black English].
1987 Daily Tel. 24 Dec. 5/1 We wanted somebody who had an Afro-Caribbean background, preferably born in this country.
1997 Time Out 10 Sept. 185/4 The nicest people on show: two elderly Afro-Caribbean women who..can obviously spot Marks for..a '60s student layabout.
2008 Guardian 6 Feb. (G2 section) 8/1 In Bristol, which has a large Afro-Caribbean community, jazz, dub and trip-hop have flourished.
B. n.
A person of Afro-Caribbean origin or descent.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [noun]
West Indian1848
Afro-Caribbean1959
1959 Encounter Dec. 53/1 In the bad old days, when..the Afro-Caribbeans had little but humiliation.
1969 Negro Digest Oct. 41/2 The question for any individual African, Afro-American, Afro-Caribbean or any other kind of African-related intellectual is whether to decide to go along with this..destructive..elite.
1975 Economist 18 Oct. 33/1 A small survey on registration in seven constituencies, suggests that 30% of Afro-Caribbeans and Asians were not registered, compared with only 6% of whites.
1988 Financial Times 20 Aug. (Weekend Suppl.) p. xv/7 ‘My’ people are the British-based black Africans and Afro-Caribbeans, and Jamaica-born Mr Dennis talks about them with knowledge and sympathy.
2001 Third Text Spring 77 For a time, black Afro-Caribbeans were in the vanguard of these avant-garde cultural practices.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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