": any of several small spiny central African citrus trees (genus Citropsis ) with leathery unequally pinnate leaves and small sweet bright orange fruits growing in clusters":[]
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"1913, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1906, in the meaning defined above":""
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"1894, in the meaning defined above":""
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": a parrot ( Psittacus erithacus ) native to equatorial Africa that has gray plumage, a red tail, and a whitish face and is commonly domesticated especially for its ability in learning to talk":[]
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"1754, in the meaning defined above":""
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": any of several large coarse-furred ground-dwelling squirrels of Xerus and related genera often conspicuously marked with white and widely distributed in drier parts of Africa":[]
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"1866, in the meaning defined above":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1827, in the meaning defined above":""
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": filled with concern or regret over an unwanted situation":[
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"Melissa is afraid of flying, so she takes a train from Boston to visit her brother in Chicago.",
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"And speaking of fun prints, don't be afraid of mixing them, as Studio DB boldly did in this bedroom. \u2014 Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful , 23 June 2022",
"Only jacket\u2013is afraid of a trendy food sweeping California: sushi. \u2014 Ellen Gamerman, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"What the filmmakers discovered was that after seeing those big spiders, the audience was not afraid of King Kong. \u2014 David Marchese, New York Times , 10 June 2022",
"Stewart wasn\u2019t afraid of gender-bending looks, including chiffon blouses and marabou trim tops. \u2014 Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue , 10 June 2022",
"The mood is serious, but nobody is afraid of the long odds. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"TMZThe Week Sony apparently ain't afraid of exhausting the Ghostbusters IP. \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 9 June 2022",
"Two-thirds of customers are not afraid of having XR technologies augment their shopping experience. \u2014 Ilya Gandzeichuk, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"Curiel and others who stopped to eat tacos during their trip to the grocery store said some community members are afraid of the police. \u2014 David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 June 2022"
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"scary",
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"spooked",
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"terrorized"
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"They were afraid for their lives.",
"He's afraid for his job."
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": from a fresh beginning : anew , again":[]
},
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"the shooting broke out afresh when the bandits reappeared at the crest of the hill",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While firms are traditionally run as partnerships, many who are looking to start afresh are thinking more about the options available to them as a limited company. \u2014 Alice Stephenson, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"All of them were familiar, and yet, as performed by the chorus and the superb guest soprano Jacqueline Echols, even the most frequently sung hit home afresh . \u2014 Zachary Lewis, cleveland , 5 June 2022",
"To mitigate these risks, the researchers urge policy makers to think afresh about bolstering the social safety net, especially in areas such as unemployment benefits and Medicaid. \u2014 Adi Gaskell, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
"Then came the coronavirus, decimating bricks-and-mortar markets afresh . \u2014 WSJ , 25 Dec. 2021",
"There are some within the league who believe that, having sat out all of last season during his spat with Texans management and lost a sizable sum in endorsements, Watson already has paid his price and should start afresh without a suspension. \u2014 Mike Jones, USA TODAY , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Vailea said the people of Mango Island are split, with some wanting to return and others happy to start life afresh in Nuku\u2019alofa or elsewhere. \u2014 Nick Perry, Anchorage Daily News , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Vailea said the people of Mango Island are split, with some wanting to return and others happy to start life afresh in Nuku'alofa or elsewhere. \u2014 Nick Perry, ajc , 24 Feb. 2022",
"In November, Yadav decided to leave Indore to start his comedy career afresh in India's capital Delhi. \u2014 Rhea Mogul, CNN , 12 Feb. 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"Middle English a-fresche, from a- a- entry 1 + fresche fresh entry 1":""
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": an American of African and especially of Black African descent":[]
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": a copaibalike oleoresin supposedly derived from an African tree ( Hardwick iamanii )":[]
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"first_known_use":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143252"
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"noun"
],
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": a slender-tailed wildcat ( Felis silvestris lybica ) of Africa and the Middle East that has a usually buff, gray, or brown coat and is typically considered to be the ancestor of the domestic cat":[
"Most people seeing an African wildcat would indeed think \"pussycat.\"",
"\u2014 Stephen Budiansky , Atlantic Monthly , June 2002",
"A variant of the African wildcat , domestic cats probably first cozied up to humans in Egypt several thousand years ago. They populated the globe by riding the coattails of trade and empire.",
"\u2014 Bruce Barcott , New York Times , 2 Dec. 2007"
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": the yellowish wood of the African walnut having the grain and figure of mahogany":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1898, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152935"
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"adjective",
"noun"
],
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": a Canadian of African and especially of black African descent":[
"He used his fame as an athlete to speak out against wage discrimination and the misrepresentation of African-Canadians on television.",
"\u2014 Sharon Lem , Toronto Star , 25 Apr. 2009"
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},
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"\u00a6a-fri-k\u0259n-k\u0259-\u00a6n\u0101-d\u0113-\u0259n also \u00a6\u00e4-"
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"first_known_use":{
"1986, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-163712"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": any of several tropical African gesneriads (especially Saintpaulia ionantha ) widely grown as houseplants for their velvety fleshy leaves and showy purple, pink, or white flowers":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1897, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-171819"
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"afraid to say":{
"type":[
"idiom"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172616"
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"African Burial Ground National Monument":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"site in lower Manhattan, New York City, where free and enslaved Africans were buried in the late 17th and 18th centuries":[]
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a plant of the genus Ixia":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1897, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-185607"
},
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"type":[
"plural noun"
],
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": materials (such as books, documents, or artifacts) relating to African history and culture":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8k\u00e4-",
"-\u02c8k\u0101-",
"also \u02cc\u00e4-",
"\u02cca-fri-\u02c8ka-n\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"africa + -ana":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1893, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-192418"
},
"African American English":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a variety of American English spoken chiefly by African Americans":[
"Like all other dialects of English, with their own histories of how they came to be, African American English (AAE) is a systematic and complete language that operates under a set of rules \u2026",
"\u2014 Ren\u00e9e Blake and Kimberley Baxter",
"\u2014 abbreviation AAE , AAL"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"1973, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-201832"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": cape buffalo":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1784, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-204844"
},
"Africa":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
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"continent of the eastern hemisphere straddling the Equator, separated from Europe by the Strait of Gibraltar, and adjoining Asia at the Sinai Peninsula area 11,677,239 square miles (30,244,049 square kilometers)":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8a-fri-k\u0259 also \u02c8\u00e4-"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210043"
},
"African American Vernacular English":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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": african american english":[
"\u2014 abbreviation AAVE"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"1991, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210245"
},
"African mahogany":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": mahogany sense 1b":[]
},
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1831, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210608"
},
"African bee":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": africanized bee":[
"Southern California is beginning to see an increase of African bees , and beekeepers all over the state are on the front lines of defense \u2026",
": a dark grayish brown that is very slightly redder, lighter, and stronger than average chocolate brown and paler and very slightly redder than Chippendale":[],
": a very dark chocolate brown":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1914, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-233321"
},
"Africanized bee":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a honeybee that originated in Brazil as an accidental hybrid between an aggressive African subspecies ( Apis mellifera scutellata ) and previously established European honeybees and has spread to Mexico and the southernmost U.S. by breeding with local bees producing populations retaining most of the African bee's traits":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccaf-ri-k\u0259-\u02ccn\u012bzd-"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1970, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-234837"
},
"African cubeb":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the fruit of a tropical African shrub ( Piper clusii ) tasting like black pepper and used to adulterate it":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1840, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-001422"
},
"Africanize":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to cause to acquire a distinctively African trait":[],
": to bring under the influence, control, or cultural or civil supremacy of Africans and especially Black Africans":[]
},
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"\u02c8a-fri-k\u0259-\u02ccn\u012bz",
"also \u02c8\u00e4-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"african entry 2 + -ize":""
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"1816, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-001514"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a stout branching annual herb ( Tagetes erecta ) with flower heads two to four inches across and yellow to orange in color":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1611, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-002045"
},
"Afric":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": african":[]
},
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"\u02c8a-frik",
"\u02c8afrik"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from Latin \u0100fricus \"of the Roman province of Africa (present-day northern Tunisia), of the continent of Africa,\" from \u0100fr-, \u0100fer \"of Africa, inhabitant of North Africa (other than Egypt)\" (of unknown origin) + -icus -ic entry 1":"Adjective",
"derivative of afric":"Noun"
},
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"circa 1529, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-010653"
},
"African valerian":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an herb ( Fedia cornucopiae ) of the family Valerianaceae cultivated for its red flowers or for use as a salad":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1886, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-012435"
},
"African locust":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1840, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-014740"
},
"African blackwood":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a tropical African tree ( Dalbergia melanoxylon ) with hard purple wood used especially in the manufacture of musical instruments":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1843, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-025910"
},
"African Methodist Episcopal":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or being a Methodist church organized by African-Americans in 1816":[
"\u2014 abbreviation AME"
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"first_known_use":{
"1823, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-031633"
},
"African":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
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": a native or inhabitant of Africa":[],
": a person and especially a Black person of African ancestry":[],
": of, relating to, or characteristic of the continent of Africa or its people":[]
},
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"also \u02c8\u00e4-",
"\u02c8a-fri-k\u0259n"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English Aufrican, Affrican, going back to Old English Africanas (plural), borrowed from Latin \u0100fric\u0101nus african entry 2":"Noun",
"borrowed from Latin \u0100fric\u0101nus, from \u0100frica (short for \u0100frica terra, literally, \"African land,\" from feminine of \u0100fricus \"of the Roman province of Africa [present-day northern Tunisia], of the continent of Africa,\" from \u0100fr-, \u0100fer \"of Africa, inhabitant of North Africa [other than Egypt]\" \u2014of unknown origin\u2014 + -icus -ic entry 1 ) + -\u0101nus -an entry 2":"Adjective"
},
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1548, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-042923"
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"\u2014 Ren\u00e9e Blake and Kimberley Baxter",
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"first_known_use":{
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": of, relating to, or characteristic of the continent of Africa or its people":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1731, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-104901"
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"first_known_use":{
"1754, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-113122"
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"African sleeping sickness":{
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"African sleeping sickness , caused by Trypanosoma brucei, gradually brings on devastating neurological symptoms that affect the sleep cycle.",
"\u2014 C. Brownlee"
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"first_known_use":{
"1875, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-121355"
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"African millet":{
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"first_known_use":{
"1765, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-155810"
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"African juniper":{
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"definitions":{
": a tall evergreen tree ( Juneperus procera ) of the mountains of eastern Africa":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1912, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-173146"
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"African Latin":{
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": Latin of the style and idiom found in the earliest Latin version of the Bible":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1782, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-173827"
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"African elephant":{
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": elephant sense 1a(1)":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1607, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-175923"
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": of, relating to, or characteristic of the continent of Africa or its people":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
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"borrowed from Latin \u0100fric\u0101nus, from \u0100frica (short for \u0100frica terra, literally, \"African land,\" from feminine of \u0100fricus \"of the Roman province of Africa [present-day northern Tunisia], of the continent of Africa,\" from \u0100fr-, \u0100fer \"of Africa, inhabitant of North Africa [other than Egypt]\" \u2014of unknown origin\u2014 + -icus -ic entry 1 ) + -\u0101nus -an entry 2":"Adjective"
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1785, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-200926"
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": khat":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1891, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-201531"
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"African lily":{
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": blood lily":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1822, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-202608"
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"African dominoes":{
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"definitions":{
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": craps":[]
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"first_known_use":{
"1919, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-204123"
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1863, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-223258"
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"African hair":{
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"definitions":{
": a fiber obtained from the leaves of hemp palm and used for mattress stuffing and also made into a fabric resembling haircloth":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1851, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-224531"
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": the quality or state of being African or of having African origins":[
"I think we have taken for granted that all of us actually embrace our Africanity .",
"\u2014 Reverend John E. Jackson, Sr., New Pittsburgh Courier , 2 Mar. 2005"
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},
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"first_known_use":{
"1962, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-005649"
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