Afrikander

American  

[af-ri-kan-der] / ˌæf rɪˈkæn dər /

Or Africander

noun

1. one of a breed of red beef cattle, raised originally in southern Africa, well adapted to high temperatures.

2. Archaic. Afrikaner.

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Afrikander British  

/ ˌæfrɪˈkændə, afriˈkandə /

noun

1. a breed of humpbacked beef cattle originally raised in southern Africa

2. a southern African breed of fat-tailed sheep

3. a former name for an Afrikaner

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Etymology

Origin of Afrikander

Afrikaner

Example Sentences

South Africans prefer their own Afrikander folk songs like Sarie Marais.

From Time Magazine Archive

Patriotic appeals from London, urging South Africa to follow the Mother Country off gold, have fallen on deaf Afrikander ears.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am an Afrikander, like yourself, and I know of these things.

From From Veldt Camp Fires by Bryden, H.A.

With the Prime Minister went Sir Richard Solomon, Mr. Herholdt, and one or two of the Afrikander rank and file.

From Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil)

To him, the direct representative of the republican nationalists in the Afrikander Cabinet, amnesty for the rebels is the "sound and proper policy."

From Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil)