What does boer mean?
Definitions for boer
bɔr, boʊr, bʊərboer
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Princeton's WordNet
Afrikaner, Afrikander, Boernoun
a white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans
Wiktionary
Boernoun
A white South African farmer of Dutch, or by extension other white non-Anglo Saxon descent, especially one who is a descendant of voortrekkers.
Boernoun
A militant in the Boer war
Etymology: From and boer.
Wikipedia
boer
Boers ( BOORZ; Afrikaans: Boere (Afrikaans pronunciation: [buːrə])) are the descendants of the Dutch-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. From 1652 to 1795, the Dutch East India Company controlled this area, but the United Kingdom incorporated it into the British Empire in 1806. The name of the group is derived from "boer", which means "farmer" in Dutch and Afrikaans.In addition, the term Boeren also applied to those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to colonise in the Orange Free State, Transvaal (together known as the Boer Republics), and to a lesser extent Natal. They emigrated from the Cape to live beyond the reach of the British colonial administration, with their reasons for doing so primarily being the new Anglophone common law system being introduced into the Cape and the British abolition of slavery in 1833.The term Afrikaners or Afrikaans people is generally used in modern-day South Africa for the white Afrikaans-speaking population of South Africa (the largest group of White South Africans) and the other descendants of the Cape Dutch who did not embark on the Great Trek. This term, however does not include the Boer who view themselves to be a separate ethnic group.
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boer
A Boer is a term referring to a member of the Dutch and Huguenot population that settled in southern Africa, especially in the region now known as South Africa, during the 17th-19th centuries. The word "Boer" translates to "farmer" in Dutch, reflecting the agricultural lifestyle of these settlers. The Boers are well known for their distinct cultural identity and struggles for independence during the Boer Wars with the British Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Webster Dictionary
Boernoun
a colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent
Wikidata
Boer
Boer is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal, and to a lesser extent Natal. Their primary motivations for leaving the Cape were to escape British rule and extract themselves from the constant border wars between the British imperial government and the native tribes on the eastern frontier. Boers are a distinct group of the larger Afrikaner nation.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Boer
bōōr, n. a Dutch colonist at the Cape engaged in agriculture. [Dut. boer. See Boor.]
Etymology and Origins
Boer
Expresses the Dutch for a farmer. Synonymous with the English “boor,” an uncultivated fellow, a tiller of the soil.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BOER
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Boer is ranked #19379 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Boer surname appeared 1,395 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Boer.
93.7% or 1,308 total occurrences were White.
2.9% or 41 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.2% or 18 total occurrences were Asian.
1.2% or 18 total occurrences were of two or more races.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of boer in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of boer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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