East African
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2.7
- adjective
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esteafricano
- Islam also had some influence on people living along the East African coast.
- East African coast
- East African history
- East African identity
Examples
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Many of these efforts, like the East African Commission, have been spectacular failures.
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The religious composition of the East Africans differed from those who came directly from India.
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The presence of so many East African examples is unusual.
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Kenya is a critically important East African country at a crossroads.
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As to the national language, Swahili was a non-tribal language of the East African coast.
Academic text (2001) -
In examining these themes, we discuss the record of locally produced ceramics from the nineteenth-century East African coast.
Academic text (2006) -
Nuer age groups, as described by Evans-Pritchard, are characteristic of many East African pastoral societies.
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In the 1950s and 1960s, Walter Plowright conducted research at the East African Veterinary Research Organization in Muguga, Kenya, on rinderpest vaccines.
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European architectural interiors in Zanzibar were an amalgamation of Victorian, British Raj, and coastal East African display logics.
Academic text (2009) -
The epic journey takes place within the two East African nations of Tanzania and Kenya.
Synonyms
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Relating to Africa, its people, or its cultures
Surface Forms
Morphology
East + African
The meaning 'relating to East Africa or its people' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'East' (a directional/region term) with 'African' (connected to Africa). This geographic compound follows ordinary compositional patterns found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
East African is just East + African, so it literally means 'from the eastern part of Africa'. People have long used directions to name places, so today East African means 'relating to East Africa or its people, languages, or culture'.