Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An Afrikaans-speaking South African of European and especially Dutch ancestry.

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  • noun A member of an ethnic group of northwestern European ancestry and associated with southern Africa and the Afrikaans language.
  • noun A breed of cattle, aka Afrikander.

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  • noun a white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans
  • adjective belonging or relating to white people of South Africa whose ancestors were Dutch or to their language

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Afrikaans, from Dutch, from Afrikaan, an African, from Latin Āfricānus, from Āfrica, Africa, from Āfer, Āfr-, an African.]

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Examples

  • The term Afrikaner was not limited to colour but was an inclusive term, Renier Schoeman, executive director of the National

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Some had their titles written in English, but more in the German-looking language that had also produced the phrase Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging.

    The Guns Of The South Turtledove, Harry 1960

  • An Afrikaner is a South African of certain European ancestry, especially Dutch.

    Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

  • An Afrikaner is a South African of certain European ancestry, especially Dutch.

    Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

  • The charge arises from an incident last year where he allegedly called Afrikaner student leaders "white dogs" during a Freedom

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Whites continued to be imprisoned by notions of white supremacy, Mandela said, and by the notion of Afrikaner interests that were separate and opposed to the interests of the rest of the population.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Commissioner George Fivaz said Jan Sebastiaan de Wet, 41, was arrested outside the West Rand town of Randfontein on the property of a so-called Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging general, Japie Oelofse.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Rand town of Randfontein on the property of a so-called Afrikaner

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Pikkie Robbertze said the idea of Afrikaner self-determination was not new.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • He added the African National Congress and National Party had never really intended to give Afrikaners a "volkstaat" (nation state) and that the idea of such a separate state had been falsely based on the belief that the Afrikaner was a nation on its own.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

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