Euro-Africann.adj.
/ˌjʊərəʊˈafrᵻk(ə)n/, /ˌjɔːrəʊˈafrᵻk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌjəroʊˈæfrək(ə)n/, /ˌjʊroʊˈæfrək(ə)n/ A. n.
1. Cultural Anthropology. A member of a race or group of races displaying a combination of both European and African physical characteristics.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > other racial types > [noun]
Pontic1683
yellow man1788
yellowskin1847
Euro-African1854
Mediterranean1876
Armenoid1894
Alpine1899
Nordic1900
Eurasiatic1901
blond beast1907
Caspian1923
Veddoid1948
1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. July 7/1 Demoulins' sections are Celto-Scyth-Arabs; Mongoles; Ethiopians; Euro-Africans [Fr. Euro-Africains]; Austro-Africans; Malays; Papuas; Negro Oceanians; Australasians; Columbians and Americans.
1988 Anatolian Stud. 38 113 Broad-headed Anatolians seem to have been in competition with long-headed Euro-Africans.
2. A person of mixed African and European descent.
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1957 Times 16 Oct. 9/1 Euro-Africans and Asians had asked for special representation in the federal Parliament.
1985 Compar. Educ. 21 289 The children of Asian settlers and Euro-Africans (‘coloureds’)..were grouped together.
2001 Internat. Jrnl. Afr. Hist. Stud. 33 247 The dramatis personae of his study have been variously and problematically described as Euro-Africans, as Anglo Fantis, as Creoles.
B. adj.
1. Of, relating to, or designating both Europe and Africa; combining European and African elements or characteristics. Originally Cultural Anthropology (cf. Eurafrican adj. 1).
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1908 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 12 104 One [skull] belongs to Sergi's Euro-African race and might be either Etruscan or Villanovan.
1958 Optima Mar. 25/2 A Euro-African market, which would, as its name implies, favour trade and exchanges between the two continents.
1991 P. Sweeney Virgin Directory World Music 212 Of the hybrid Euro-African musics, the carabinier was the earliest substantial dance style.
2. Of or designating a person or people of mixed European and African descent; spec. (in South Africa under apartheid) = coloured adj. 3b (rare).
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person > person white and black > in South Africa
bastard1785
Griqua1793
coloured1838
hotnot1939
Euro-African1952
1952 B. Davidson Rep. S. Afr. i. iv. 53 The Euro-African, or Coloured, rate of increase.
1988 H. S. Klein Afr. Slavery in Lat. Amer. & Caribbean vii. 145 Only in the case of the Portuguese was there an example of European or EuroAfrican traders who obtained their own slaves from the interior.
2001 Internat. Jrnl. Afr. Hist. Stud. 34 445 Coastal Euro-African families immersed in production and trade.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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