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Meanings of Boer in English
Descendants of Dutch-speaking settlers in Southern Africa.
Related terms
Portuguese
africânder Catalan
bóer A white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans.
Synonyms
Examples for "Afrikaner"
Examples for "Afrikaner"
1
In 1948 the Afrikaner Nationalists came to power & began establishing apartheid.
2
Whoever takes their part is against us and against every true Afrikaner.
3
This one is an old house where an Afrikaner lived by himself.
4
The Afrikaner was big enough to break his jaw with one swat.
5
Young is smuggled to a black township to hear of Afrikaner atrocities.
1
Long may he live to enjoy the trust of the Afrikander people!
2
And when in self-defence an Afrikander remonstrates with the hooligans, he is arrested.
3
He is an English Afrikander; is an old resident, and has a Boer wife.
4
That I promise you, and the Afrikander will do it with his own hands.
5
There is scarcely an Afrikander family without an unhealable wound.
Usage of Boer in English
1
Another letter in the afternoon; from the Boer General to Colonel Kekewich.
2
Butler wanted the British Army to prepare for a long Boer War.
3
Out in South Africa, in the very thick of the Boer war.
4
The Boer is no soldier in the technical sense of the term.
5
De Boer will leave the side after completing a tour of China.
6
It was merely display; the wily Boer did not yet mean business.
7
It also includes memorabilia from the Boer war and both world wars.
8
Dutch international Frank de Boer has also failed a test for nandrolone.
9
Between the hills was a narrow neck, and beyond the Boer capital.
10
The second Boer shell fell stupidly, and burst in the empty veldt.
11
When the Boer War broke out, he enlisted, and saw active service.
12
De Boer has suggested his replacement should be from a developing nation.
13
It cut into one of the most deeply-rooted habits of the Boer.
14
The hopelessness of the Boer cause in South Africa was, however, manifest.
15
The board decided De Boer was not the man to achieve it.
16
She will take over from Dutchman Yvo de Boer from July 1.