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AFRICANISM

Definition: AFRICANISM

AFRICANISM

Noun

1. A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"AFRICANISM" is a common misspelling or typo for: Africanize.


Expression: AFRICANISM

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "AFRICANISM": pan-africanism.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: AFRICANISM

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pan africanism

27

africanism

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "AFRICANISM"

Words rhyming with "AFRICANISM" (pronounced 'Af"ri*can*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism, Anilinism. (additional references)

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Anagrams: AFRICANISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-f-i-i-m-n-r-s"

-2 letters: minicars.

-3 letters: acrasin, arnicas, caimans, camisia, carinas, farinas, firmans, infirms, maniacs, marinas, minicar, narcism.

-4 letters: acinar, airman, aminic, animas, animis, anisic, arnica, caiman, cairns, camisa, carina, carman, casini, crania, facias, farina, fascia, ficins, firman, fracas, francs, inarms, infirm, mafias, maniac, manias, manics, marina, nairas, racism, raisin, ricins, safari, saimin, simian.

-5 letters: acari, acini, afars.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-f-i-i-m-n-r-s"
 

+3 letters: disaffirmance, ramifications.

 

+4 letters: disaffirmances.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: AFRICANISM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 46 52 49 43 41 4E 49 53 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    ..-.    .-.    ..    -.-.    .-    -.    ..    ...    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000110 01010010 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001110 01001001 01010011 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#70 &#82 &#73 &#67 &#65 &#78 &#73 &#83 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0046 0052 0049 0043 0041 004E 0049 0053 004D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35405243373548435347

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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