afro-asian

1. 1.

   of or relating to the nations of Africa and Asia or their peoples

   “Afro-Asian population”

Questions about afro-asian

What does afro-asian mean?

afro-asian means "of or relating to the nations of Africa and Asia or their peoples".

How many syllables are in afro-asian?

afro-asian has 5 syllables and divides as a-fro--a-si-an under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is afro-asian a common word?

afro-asian is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.