Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who treks in advance; a pioneer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun usually in plural A Boer pioneer, who trekked into the hinterland of South Africa during the 1830s.
  • noun A member of the Afrikaans scouting movement.

Etymologies

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Dutch voor ("advance") + trekken ("to travel").

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Examples

  • On Tuesday, when the two youths accused of murdering Terre'Blanche appeared at the town's magistrates court, stout, sunburnt white arms brandished the old South African flag, while women dressed in traditional Boer "Voortrekker" costumes piped up the apartheid-era national anthem, in an attempt to out-sing the black crowd's rendition of

    The Guardian World News Alex Duval Smith 2010

  • On Tuesday, when the two youths accused of murdering Terre'Blanche appeared at the town's magistrates court, stout, sunburnt white arms brandished the old South African flag, while women dressed in traditional Boer "Voortrekker" costumes piped up the apartheid-era national anthem, in an attempt to out-sing the black crowd's rendition of

    The Guardian World News Alex Duval Smith 2010

  • On Tuesday, when the two youths accused of murdering Terre'Blanche appeared at the town's magistrates court, stout, sunburnt white arms brandished the old South African flag, while women dressed in traditional Boer "Voortrekker" costumes piped up the apartheid-era national anthem, in an attempt to out-sing the black crowd's rendition of

    The Guardian World News Alex Duval Smith 2010

  • Maivha pointed out that Louis Trichardt was a Voortrekker pioneer who "dispossessed our people and oppressed us".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • The city's current name was derived from Voortrekker leader

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • The city's current name was derived from Voortrekker leader

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Jones's field of expertise covers the Zulu-Voortrekker conflict of 1838, the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879, the first South African war of

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • But, he said Afrikaners had been equally insulted by the removal of the bust of Voortrekker leader Louis Trichardt and the unilateral change of the town's name to Makhado.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Pretoria, established in 1855 by Voortrekker settlers, was named after Andries Pretorius, who had led them at Blood River in a victory over the Zulus in 1838.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • The meeting was held at Fort Schanskop near the Voortrekker monument and was aimed at finding ways to build a non-racial South

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

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