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Definition of East African
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or located in East Africa.
Definition of East African
1. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to East Africa, its people, or its culture. ¹
2. Noun. An East African person; one who comes from or lives in East Africa. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of East African
Literary usage of East African
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. To the Central African Lakes and Back: The Narrative of the Royal by Joseph Thompson (1881)
"... FROM 317 OBSERVATIONS TAKEN DURING THE East African EXPEDITION. By JOSEPH
THOMSON, and computed by LIEUT. ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"BRITISH East African PLATEAU LAND AND ITS ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. ... East Africa
and the Home Government—w*0 to be created within our East African empire. ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1880)
"PROGRESS OF THE SOCIETY'S East African EXPEDITION': Progress of the Society's
East African Expedition : Journey along Western Side of Laice Tanganyika. ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"THE EAST-AFRICAN LAKE COUNTRY From ' Tropical Africa ' SOMEWHERE in the Shire'
Highlands, in 1859, Livingstone saw a large lake — Lake ..."
5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1858)
"On the 5th January, 1857, I intimated to you our intention of visiting the East
African mainland. The death of the Imam of Muskat, ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1893)
"THE RISE OF OUR East African EMPIRE. " HAPPY is the country that has no history."
Regarding interior Africa we are disposed to grant this at once ; and we ..."
7. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1901)
"The Rise of our East African Empire. By Captain (now General Sir FD) Lugard, DSO
Two vols. Edinburgh and London: Blackwood,. 2. A Naturalist in Mid-Africa. ..."
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