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Definition of backveld in English: backveldnounˈbakfɛlt the backveldSouth African Remote country districts, especially when considered to be unsophisticated or conservative. Example sentencesExamples - These state-printed-and-distributed texts were an important medium for educating the backveld in geological theory and hydraulic engineering practice.
- Even so this was chiefly at the expense of Labour, while the Nationalist tide rose still higher on the backveld.
- The popular antipathy on the backveld towards geological and engineering science constituted a serious ideological obstacle to state water boring.
- The motor-car was now beginning to make its first appearance in the backveld, and a small motor transport corps rendered excellent service.
- Thus inducted, these mechanic para-geologists were dispersed through the backveld, each in charge of a drill, and spent a minimum of three years working in a division to acquire experience, reading and boring the local geology.
Synonyms countryside, green belt, great outdoors
Derivatives noun South African Among the Backvelders there appeared to have been some misunderstanding as to whether the South Africans were subjects or merely friends of the British Government. Example sentencesExamples - Apparently this was an attempt by the Backvelders to challenge the enthusiasm of the townspeople in the various centres who had been passing loyal resolutions in favour of the expedition and of confidence in the Union Government.
- To his surprise he found there a Boer with a long, unkempt bearda "backvelder," or, as we call it, a "takhaar," of the most pronounced type.
- Progressives' preferred image of the diviner was of a ‘knave’ preying on the credulity of ignorant backvelders to defraud them.
Origin Partial translation of Afrikaans agterveld, literally 'back countryside'. |