African-American vs colored

colored vs African-American

African-American and colored both are nouns.

African-American and colored both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
African-American	Yes	Yes	No	No
colored	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, colored is a hyponym of African-American; that is, colored is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than African-American:

African-American: a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
colored: a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive

Other hyponyms of African-American include soul brother, picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny, Negress, jigaboo, nigga, nigger, nigra, Tom, Uncle Tom, Black man, Black woman, darkey, darkie, darky, colored person, coloured, coloured person.

African-American (noun)	colored (noun)
a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today	a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive

African-American (adjective)	colored (adjective)
pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry	having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination
	(used of color) artificially produced; not natural
	having skin rich in melanin pigments;
	favoring one person or side over another

Difference between African-American and colored

Words related to "colored"

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