Definitions for Boer

Boer Boer

Spelling: [bawr, bohr, boo r; Dutch boor]
IPA: /bɔr, boʊr, bʊər; Dutch bur/

Boer is a 4 letter English word.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in Boer (beor).

Definitions for Boer

noun

  1. a South African of Dutch extraction.

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Boers.

Origin of Boer

1825-35; Afrikaans Dutch: peasant, farmer. See boor

Examples for Boer

Milner was the chief British civil administrator in South Africa through the (bitterly controversial at home) Boer War.

Nice lil thing, too; some of the Boer girls, you know; but not much ballast at her at all.

“The events are spread inside and outside the city,” says Boer.

It was the same as regards the great plateau and the Boer emigrants who dwelt there.

During the Boer War, Canadians flocked to the colours to defend the British Empire.

This does not happen to the Boer, who always wears a broad-brimmed hat.

He had served through the Boer and the Spanish-American wars with distinction.

These are military and political debacles to rival the Boer War.

But the most delightful of all Boer customs was the custom of flogging by pipes.

“Speaking in general, it seems the atmosphere in the city today is completely different from the crowning in 1980,” says Boer.

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