Boer
- a South African of Dutch extraction.
- of or relating to the Boers.
Origin of Boer
Examples from the Web for boer
Contemporary Examples of boer
“The events are spread inside and outside the city,” says Boer.
“Speaking in general, it seems the atmosphere in the city today is completely different from the crowning in 1980,” says Boer.
These are military and political debacles to rival the Boer War.
During the Boer War, Canadians flocked to the colours to defend the British Empire.
Milner was the chief British civil administrator in South Africa through the (bitterly controversial at home) Boer War.
Historical Examples of boer
Nice lil thing, too; some of the Boer girls, you know; but not much ballast at her at all.
The ManxmanHall Caine
He had served through the Boer and the Spanish-American wars with distinction.
The Pirate of PanamaWilliam MacLeod Raine
This does not happen to the Boer, who always wears a broad-brimmed hat.
Impressions of South AfricaJames Bryce
It was the same as regards the great plateau and the Boer emigrants who dwelt there.
Impressions of South AfricaJames Bryce
But the most delightful of all Boer customs was the custom of flogging by pipes.
History of the Moravian ChurchJ. E. Hutton
Boer
- a descendant of any of the Dutch or Huguenot colonists who settled in South Africa, mainly in Cape Colony, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal
- (as modifier)a Boer farm
Word Origin for Boer
Word Origin and History for boer
Boer
"Dutch colonist in South Africa," 1824, from Dutch boer "farmer," from Middle Dutch, cognate with Old English gebur "dweller, farmer, peasant," and thus related to bower, German Bauer, and the final syllable of neighbor (see boor). Boer War (1899-1902) was technically the Second Boer War, there having been a brief preview 1880-1881.