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Meanings of Afrikaner in English

Portuguese
africânder
Catalan
bóer

A white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans.

africânder
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Examples for "Afrikander"
Examples for "Afrikander"
1
Long may he live to enjoy the trust of the Afrikander people!
Three Years' War
2
And when in self-defence an Afrikander remonstrates with the hooligans, he is arrested.
Native Life in South Africa / Before and Since the European War ...
3
He is an English Afrikander; is an old resident, and has a Boer wife.
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
4
That I promise you, and the Afrikander will do it with his own hands.
Native Life in South Africa / Before and Since the European War ...
5
There is scarcely an Afrikander family without an unhealable wound.
My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
1
Another letter in the afternoon; from the Boer General to Colonel Kekewich.
The Siege of Kimberley / Its Humorous and Social Side; Anglo-Boe...
2
Butler wanted the British Army to prepare for a long Boer War.
The Irish Times
3
Out in South Africa, in the very thick of the Boer war.
The Rosary
4
The Boer is no soldier in the technical sense of the term.
In the Shadow of Death
5
De Boer will leave the side after completing a tour of China.
The Guardian
Usage of Afrikaner in English
1
In 1948 the Afrikaner Nationalists came to power & began establishing apartheid.
The new yorker
2
Whoever takes their part is against us and against every true Afrikaner.
Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) / The Conspiracy...
3
This one is an old house where an Afrikaner lived by himself.
A beautiful place to die
4
The Afrikaner was big enough to break his jaw with one swat.
A beautiful place to die
5
Young is smuggled to a black township to hear of Afrikaner atrocities.
Reuters
6
Former members of Afrikaner AWB appear before Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
The Irish Times
7
These nationalist culture brokers suppressed oppositional and alternative thought within the Afrikaner community.
The South African
8
They aim to organise their own curriculum and subjects based on Afrikaner culture.
The South African
9
I was very influenced by the great Afrikaner Communist Bram Fischer.
The South African
10
This was the dilemma of other Afrikaner generals and political leaders.
The Guardian
11
The Afrikaner love of the land was as tenacious as the influenza virus.
A beautiful place to die
12
Gert gripped my hand in the traditional, excessively firm Afrikaner manner.
The power of one
13
In 1914, Afrikaner nationalists founded the National party, also in Bloemfontein.
The Guardian
14
A fifth-generation Afrikaner, Pistorius has a historical context of his own.
The Guardian
15
The policing of the boundaries of the Afrikaner identity has been stepped up.
The South African
16
The whites-only Afrikaner enclave in the Northern Cape acts as its own entity.
The South African
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Catalan
bóer
Afrikaner through the time