Boer
/bɔː
/ /ˈbəʊə / /bʊə /chiefly historical
noun
1A member of the Dutch and Huguenot population which settled in southern Africa in the late 17th century. The Boers' present-day descendants are the Afrikaners.During the 16th and 17th centuries, Dutch, Boers, Germans, and Huguenots migrated to South Africa, and these people brought with them their own European hunting dogs....
- The war arose from rivalry between Britain's claim to be the paramount power in southern Africa and the desire of the Boers (descendants of Dutch settlers) for autonomy.
- The truth is that in two hundred years the stiffest opposition the British faced in Africa were the Boers and the Afrika Korps.
2 (boer) South African An Afrikaner farmer.
3 (boer) South African informal (Under apartheid) a member of the police, prison service, or security forces.The boers arrived in trucks and told us, ‘jump in, we are going to KwaNobuhle.'
adjective
Relating to the Boers.This meant the destruction of Boer farms, the confiscation of horses, cattle and wagons and the rounding up of the inhabitants, usually women and children....
- Du Plessis admitted that a video about the prophesies of Boer prophet Siener van Rensburg had not incited anyone to violence and in fact took the form of a warning to people to turn to God.
- Under his command the concentration camp was invented to contain Boer women, children and elderly men removed from their farms.
Origin
From Dutch boer 'farmer'.
Rhymes
- farmer cheese
- Farmer, Fannie Merritt
- farmer's cheese
- farmer's lung
- farmers' market
- farmhand
- farmhouse
- farmhouse loaf
- farming
- Farmington
- Farmington Hills
- farm laborer
- farm labourer
- farmland
- farm produce
- farm shop
- farm stay
- farmstead
- farm team
- farmworker
- farmyard
- Farnborough
- Farne Islands
- Farnese, Alessandro
- farness