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Boer

[ bawr, bohr, boor; Dutch boor ]

noun

  1. a South African of Dutch extraction.


adjective

  1. of or relating to the Boers.

Boer

/ ˈbəʊə; bʊə; bɔː /

noun

    1. a descendant of any of the Dutch or Huguenot colonists who settled in South Africa, mainly in Cape Colony, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal
    2. ( as modifier )

      a Boer farm

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Boer1

First recorded in 1825–35; Afrikaans, from Dutch: “peasant, farmer”; boor
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Boer1

C19: from Dutch Boer ; see boor
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But they were kept in the match by goalkeeper Jan de Boer, who pulled off a string of fine stops and saved a second-half penalty.

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In South Africa, white Afrikaners, feeling humiliated after their final defeat in the Boer War in 1902, imposed apartheid to retain dominance over Black South Africans.

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But the team has not come close to matching the success it had during the two-year tenure of its first coach, Tata Martino, or in the first year of his successor, Frank de Boer.

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"With a host of issues driving our environmental challenges down society's priority list, events like Earth Day remind us of the long-term cost of short-termism," says Yvo de Boer, former UN climate chief.

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He arrived in September 2017 after a short-lived experiment with Frank de Boer which encompassed just five games, steadying the ship in classic Hodgson fashion to guide the Eagles to 11th.

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