Afrikander

or Af·ri·can·der

[ af-ri-kan-der ]

noun

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

Afrikander

/ 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Afrikander¹

Afrikaner

Word History and Origins

Origin of Afrikander¹

C19: from South African Dutch, formed on the model of Hollander

Example Sentences

By birth, education and sympathies a typical Dutch Afrikander, he set himself to organize the political power of his fellow-countrymen.

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It was all a primitive and strenuous performance, but these Afrikander cattle are very wild and cannot be handled.

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This ranch belonged to an English Afrikander friend of his, and he had every hope that there his cattle—a goodly herd—and some hundreds of goats might be safe.

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The Herero had been subjugated by Jonker Afrikander, a son of Christian Afrikander, who followed the early footsteps of his sire and had renounced Christianity, but in 1865 they had recovered their independence.

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Nothing is more striking than the instinctive and instantaneous solidarity which binds together Australians and Afrikanders, Californians and Canadians, into a “sacred union” at the mere whisper of Asiatic immigration.

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