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(Plural "Boere") The [[Afrikaans]] name for a '''farmer'''.  
 
(Plural "Boere") The [[Afrikaans]] name for a '''farmer'''.  
  
Besides its literal meaning, it is also used as a synonym for an [[Afrikaner]] or Afrikaans-speaking descendents of the Dutch settlers. Later became a more pejorative term in the anti-Apartheid period and even thereafter.  
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Besides its literal meaning, it is also used as a synonym for an [[Afrikaner]] or [[Afrikaans]]-speaking descendents of the [[Dutch]] settlers. Later became a more pejorative term in the anti-Apartheid period and even thereafter.  
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Derivatives: [[Boere-oorlog]] or [[Boer War]] 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 07:17, 25 May 2014

(Plural "Boere") The Afrikaans name for a farmer.

Besides its literal meaning, it is also used as a synonym for an Afrikaner or Afrikaans-speaking descendents of the Dutch settlers. Later became a more pejorative term in the anti-Apartheid period and even thereafter.

Derivatives: Boere-oorlog or Boer War

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