Africk

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A form of Africa — The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. obsoleteObsolete form of Africa.

    Massinissa made many inward parts of Barbarie and Numidia in Africk (before his time incult and horrid) fruitful and battable by this means.

    1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
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    And let not the incredulous reader pretend to doubt the truth of this phenomenon, until he ſhall have firſt peruſed the ingenious Peter Kolben’s Natural Hiſtory of the Cape of Good Hope, where the inhabitants commonly uſe to ſtrike fire with the ſhin-bones of lions which have been killed in that part of Africk.

    a. 1772, [Tobias] Smollett, “He Is Concerned in a Dangerous Adventure with a Certain Gardener; […]”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London, published 1781, →OCLC, page 49, column 2
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APA

Africk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Africk

MLA

“Africk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Africk. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Africk,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Africk.

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