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Definition of Afrikaner in English: Afrikanernoun ˌafrɪˈkɑːnəˌæfrəˈkɑnər 1An Afrikaans-speaking white person in South Africa, especially one descended from the Dutch and Huguenot settlers of the 17th century. Example sentencesExamples - During the first two decades of the nineteenth century control of the Cape Colony passed to and fro between Afrikaners and British authorities but rested with the latter.
- After 1845, the Pedi also had to contend with an influx of white Afrikaner settlers, some of whom seized Pedi children and forced them to work as slaves.
- The Boers or Afrikaners, as the descendants of the Dutch called themselves, ceded the Cape to Great Britain in an 1814 treaty.
- There were other aims as well, such as mediation and adjustment of differences between English and Afrikaners, between white workers and their employers, and between mining and farming interests.
- Afrikaans, the language spoken by Afrikaners, evolved as a dialect of Dutch spoken by settlers on the frontier during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- The majority of white South Africans supported Britain during the First World War, but with Afrikaners in the majority among the white population there was growing opposition to membership of the British empire.
- Key innovators were often British settlers, but Afrikaners, still the predominant landowners, were drawn into the commercial pastoral economy.
- French Canadians, Irish nationalists under the Union, and Afrikaners, as well as Scots and English emigrant settlers all pressed their claims to participation and control.
- Leonie was of German descent while her husband Hendrik was an Afrikaner.
- Was it strange for a white Afrikaner to seek help from a black Nigerian faith healer?
- Most folklore is shared by Afrikaners and Coloreds.
- He was a white, male Afrikaner from the heartland of the volk, the Free State.
- In my academic posting here I report a study of South African Afrikaners (whites of Dutch origin).
- A Dutch colony was established in 1652; the settlers were at first known as BOERS and later as Afrikaners.
- The founding and development of European colonies and republics began the long and bitter conflicts between African chiefs, British and Afrikaners, and whites and black Africans that have shaped the nation's history.
- Germans and South African Afrikaners, arriving in the nineteenth century, make up most of the 6 percent of the population that is white.
- The organisation is not seen as representative of all Afrikaners, let alone South Africa's four million whites who make up less than 10% of the population.
- Orange is a reference to the Dutch heritage of many Afrikaners.
- Throughout most of the twentieth century, South Africa's political life was dominated by white Afrikaners.
- As a consequence, the book reinforces the mainstream accounts of South African history in which the protagonists are black nationalists and white Afrikaners.
2South African A gladiolus native to southern Africa. Gladiolus and related genera, family Iridaceae Example sentencesExamples - Homoglossum watsoninum (red Afrikaner) is a gladiolus-like plant that can grow to a metre tall.
Derivatives noun This rule by the generals was wholly unacceptable to the great notables of Afrikanerdom. Example sentencesExamples - His role as lecturer in what was a bastion of Afrikanerdom is of fairly recent origin.
- They represented our country with the notion that Afrikanerdom and the Lord would get them through.
- He has never attempted to construct a microcosm of South African society, and thus to view his work as a general statement about Afrikanerdom or white society is misguided.
- It was actively disseminated by the Broederbond, a Protestant organization formed in 1918 to promote Afrikanerdom.
Origin Afrikaans, from South African Dutch Africander, from Dutch Afrikaan 'an African' + the personal suffix -der, on the pattern of Hollander 'Dutchman'. Rhymes Africana, Americana, ana, banana, Botswana, bwana, cabana, caragana, Christiana, Dana, darner, Edwardiana, garner, Georgiana, Ghana, Gloriana, Guiana, gymkhana, Haryana, iguana, Lana, lantana, liana, Lipizzaner, Ljubljana, Mahayana, mana, mañana, marijuana, nirvana, Oriana, pacarana, piranha, prana, Purana, Rosh Hashana, Santayana, Setswana, sultana, Tatiana, Tijuana, Tirana, tramontana, Tswana, varna, Victoriana, zenana Definition of Afrikaner in US English: Afrikanernounˌafrəˈkänərˌæfrəˈkɑnər An Afrikaans-speaking person in South Africa, especially one descended from the Dutch and Huguenot settlers of the 17th century. Example sentencesExamples - Orange is a reference to the Dutch heritage of many Afrikaners.
- The organisation is not seen as representative of all Afrikaners, let alone South Africa's four million whites who make up less than 10% of the population.
- French Canadians, Irish nationalists under the Union, and Afrikaners, as well as Scots and English emigrant settlers all pressed their claims to participation and control.
- Most folklore is shared by Afrikaners and Coloreds.
- Throughout most of the twentieth century, South Africa's political life was dominated by white Afrikaners.
- In my academic posting here I report a study of South African Afrikaners (whites of Dutch origin).
- After 1845, the Pedi also had to contend with an influx of white Afrikaner settlers, some of whom seized Pedi children and forced them to work as slaves.
- The founding and development of European colonies and republics began the long and bitter conflicts between African chiefs, British and Afrikaners, and whites and black Africans that have shaped the nation's history.
- The majority of white South Africans supported Britain during the First World War, but with Afrikaners in the majority among the white population there was growing opposition to membership of the British empire.
- As a consequence, the book reinforces the mainstream accounts of South African history in which the protagonists are black nationalists and white Afrikaners.
- Afrikaans, the language spoken by Afrikaners, evolved as a dialect of Dutch spoken by settlers on the frontier during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- He was a white, male Afrikaner from the heartland of the volk, the Free State.
- Leonie was of German descent while her husband Hendrik was an Afrikaner.
- Was it strange for a white Afrikaner to seek help from a black Nigerian faith healer?
- During the first two decades of the nineteenth century control of the Cape Colony passed to and fro between Afrikaners and British authorities but rested with the latter.
- The Boers or Afrikaners, as the descendants of the Dutch called themselves, ceded the Cape to Great Britain in an 1814 treaty.
- A Dutch colony was established in 1652; the settlers were at first known as BOERS and later as Afrikaners.
- Key innovators were often British settlers, but Afrikaners, still the predominant landowners, were drawn into the commercial pastoral economy.
- There were other aims as well, such as mediation and adjustment of differences between English and Afrikaners, between white workers and their employers, and between mining and farming interests.
- Germans and South African Afrikaners, arriving in the nineteenth century, make up most of the 6 percent of the population that is white.
Origin Afrikaans, from South African Dutch Africander, from Dutch Afrikaan ‘an African’ + the personal suffix -der, on the pattern of Hollander ‘Dutchman’. |