AAVE

abbreviation for

1. African American Vernacular English.

AAVE

abbreviation for

1. African-American Vernacular English

Usage Note

African American Vernacular English is a designation used by linguists to describe a North American dialect of English used by some Black people. Like older names for this dialect, the full term is usually used only once or twice to introduce it in writing or speech; thereafter the abbreviation (AAVE) is used, with the result that the abbreviation is far more common than the expanded form, especially in the fields of linguistics, sociolinguistics, and sociology.

Example Sentences

But as Monroe and other Twitter users noted, many of the words, such as “tea” and “pressed,” were actually derived from AAVE.

From Washington Post

"In AAVE, awake is often rendered as woke, as in, ‘I was sleeping, but now I’m woke.’"

From Fox News

Gen Z Hospital was making fun of AAVE.

From Los Angeles Times

Che responded to the backlash in a since-deleted Instagram post in which he copped to writing the segment and revealed he was new to the acronym AAVE.

From Fox News

By using narrow speech corpora both in the words that are used and how they are said, systems exclude accents and other ways of speaking that have unique linguistic features, such as AAVE.

From Scientific American