单词 | indo-african |
释义 | > as lemmasIndo-African Indo-African adj. Brit. /ˌɪndəʊˈafrᵻk(ə)n/ , U.S. /ˌɪndoʊˈæfrəkən/ of or pertaining to India and Africa, spec. applied to a supposed former continent now covered by the Indian Ocean; relating to Indians and Africans in South Africa.ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [adjective] blackOE coloured1758 native1827 non-white1867 non-European1870 Indo-African1896 woggy1941 wog1948 New Commonwealth1964 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > East Indies > [adjective] > India > India and other lands Indo-Scythian1841 Indo-Scythic1853 Indo-Iranian1876 Indo-Saracenic1887 Indo-African1896 Indo-Pakistan1955 Indo-Pakistani1958 Indo-Pak1965 1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. x. 229 Considerable sections of the Indo-African Continent..must have persisted far into the tertiary epoch. 1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. xii. 295 It is admitted by all ethnologists that Asia is the original home of the Mongolic division, a fact which harmonises with the view that the vanished Indo-African Continent was the cradle of mankind. 1971 Illustr. Weekly India 18 Apr. 24/3 Dr Naicker and Dr Dadoo forged an Indo-African political alliance. < as lemmas |
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