Afrikander
Americannoun
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one of a breed of red beef cattle, raised originally in southern Africa, well adapted to high temperatures.
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Archaic. Afrikaner.
noun
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a breed of humpbacked beef cattle originally raised in southern Africa
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a southern African breed of fat-tailed sheep
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a former name for an Afrikaner
Etymology
Origin of Afrikander
see origin at Afrikaner
Example Sentences
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South Africans prefer their own Afrikander folk songs like Sarie Marais.
From Time Magazine Archive
Patriotic appeals from London, urging South Africa to follow the Mother Country off gold, have fallen on deaf Afrikander ears.
From Time Magazine Archive
When she saw that the captive was where he could do her husband no harm, she handed a purse to the Afrikander and turned her horses’ heads homeward, with a sense of relief.
From An I.D.B. in South Africa by Vescelius-Sheldon, Louise
The Afrikander Bond has for its object the establishment of a South African nationality by spreading a true love for what is really our fatherland.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
Were they, then, the comrades or the dupes of the Afrikander nationalists?
From Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil)
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