"African American" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more African American",
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      "form": "most African American",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "African-American"
        }
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        "Alternative spelling of African-American"
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  "word": "African American"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "African Americans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "African American (plural African Americans)",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "African-American"
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          "ref": "2021-2022 Winter, “A Descendant of President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings”, in SAR Magazine, volume 116, number 3, Louisville, KY: Sons of the American Revolution, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, columns 1, 2",
          "text": "She is also a descendant of our nation's third president, Thomas Jefferson, and his enslaved mistress, Sally Hemings.[...]\nShe holds the profound honor of being the first African American employed at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.[...]\nHemings (1773-1835) is one of the most famous—and least known—African American women in U.S. history.",
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        "Alternative spelling of African-American"
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          "African-American#English"
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        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "African American"
  ],
  "word": "African American"
}

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    "English nouns"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more African American",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most African American",
      "tags": [
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "African-American"
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        "Alternative spelling of African-American"
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  "word": "African American"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "African Americans",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
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          "word": "African-American"
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          "ref": "2021-2022 Winter, “A Descendant of President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings”, in SAR Magazine, volume 116, number 3, Louisville, KY: Sons of the American Revolution, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, columns 1, 2",
          "text": "She is also a descendant of our nation's third president, Thomas Jefferson, and his enslaved mistress, Sally Hemings.[...]\nShe holds the profound honor of being the first African American employed at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.[...]\nHemings (1773-1835) is one of the most famous—and least known—African American women in U.S. history.",
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        }
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        "Alternative spelling of African-American"
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  "wikipedia": [
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  "word": "African American"
}