BoerBoer /bɔː, bʊə $ bɔːr, bʊr/ noun [countable] 
Word Origin
Word OriginWORD ORIGINBoer
ExamplesOrigin:
1800-1900 Afrikaans, Dutch boer ‘farmer’EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
word sets- I missed Matata's sixth sense and the Boer war rifle.
- I was comforted when Matata showed me a Boer war rifle wrapped in rags in the bottom of the canoe.
- Once again, however, it took the fears engendered by the Boer War to arouse widespread interest in the issue.
- She was converted to pacifism by the Quaker Hilda Clark, while at university during the Boer war.
- Small wonder that, by the time of the Boer War, the pacifists felt like a small and beleaguered minority.
- This was the one international issue between the Boer War and 1914 which mobilized large public demonstrations.
WORD SETS► Nationality & Race
Collocationsaboriginal, adjectiveaboriginal, nounaborigine, nounAfghan, nounAfrican, adjectiveAfrican, nounAfrican American, nounAfrikaner, nounAfro-, prefixAmerican, adjectiveAmerican, nounAmericanize, verbanglicize, verbAnglo-, prefixanglophile, nounAnglo-Saxon, nounAussie, nounAustralian, nounAustrian, nounAustro-, prefixbarbarian, nounBedouin, nounBenelux, nounBengali, nounbirth, nounblack, adjectiveblack, nounBoer, nounBr., brave, nounBrit, nounBritish, adjectiveBritisher, nounBriton, nounCeltic, adjectiveChinese, adjectivecontinental, adjectivecosmopolitan, adjectivecultural, adjectiveDane, nounDanish, adjectiveDutch, adjectiveDutchman, nouneastern, adjectiveEgyptian, adjectiveEgyptian, nounEnglish, adjectiveEnglishman, nounEnglishwoman, nounEskimo, nounEurasian, adjectiveEurasian, nounEuro-, prefixEuropean, nounEuropean, adjectiveFr, Franco-, prefixFrench, nounFrenchman, nounFrenchwoman, nounGallic, adjectiveGerman, nounGermanic, adjectiveGraeco-, prefixGreco-, prefixGreek, adjectiveGreek, noungypsy, nounHebraic, adjectiveHebrew, nounHellene, nounHellenic, adjectivehighland, adjectiveHighlander, nounHispanic, adjective-i, suffixIberian, adjectiveIndian, nounIndian, adjectiveIndo-, prefixinsular, adjectiveinternational, adjectiveinternationally, adverbinternecine, adjectiveIrish, adjectiveIrishman, nounIrishwoman, noun-ish, suffixIslam, nounislander, nounIsraeli, adjectiveIsraeli, nounIsraelite, nounItalian, nounJohn Bull, nounkiwi, nounLatin, nounLatin, adjectiveManx, adjectiveMaori, nounmestizo, nounmetropolitan, adjectiveMexican, adjectiveMexican, nounMoorish, adjectivemother country, nounmotherland, nounnation, nounnational anthem, nounnational costume, nounnational dress, nounnationalism, nounnationalist, nounnationalistic, adjectivenationality, nounnation state, nounnative, adjectivenative, nounNative American, nounnon-white, nounNordic, adjectiveNorse, adjectiveNorseman, nounnortherner, nounoverseas, adverboverseas, adjectivePakistani, nounparentage, nounPersian, adjectivePersian, nounPole, nounPolish, adjectiveRasta, nounRastafarian, nounRastaman, nounRussian, adjectiveRussian, nounSaxon, nounScot, nounScots, adjectiveScotsman, nounScotswoman, nounScottish, adjectiveSherpa, nounSinhalese, nounSino-, prefixsoutherner, nounSoviet, adjectiveSpaniard, nounSpanish, adjectiveSwede, nounSwedish, adjectiveSwiss, adjectiveTeutonic, adjectiveTurk, nounTurkish, adjectivewestern, adjectiveWesterner, nounwesternized, adjectivewhite, nounYiddish, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► war
a white South African whose family is related to the Dutch people who settled in South Africa in the 1600s → Afrikaner· I was comforted when Matata showed me a Boer war rifle wrapped in rags in the bottom of the canoe.· Once again, however, it took the fears engendered by the Boer War to arouse widespread interest in the issue.· Small wonder that, by the time of the Boer War, the pacifists felt like a small and beleaguered minority.· Recruitment was a major source of anxiety following Boer War revelations about the high rate of recruits rejected on grounds of ill-health.· This was the one international issue between the Boer War and 1914 which mobilized large public demonstrations.· I missed Matata's sixth sense and the Boer war rifle.· She was converted to pacifism by the Quaker Hilda Clark, while at university during the Boer war.