afrikaner

1. 1.

   a white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans

   SynonymsAfrikanderBoer

   BroaderSouth African

1. 1.

   belonging or relating to white people of South Africa whose ancestors were Dutch or to their language

   “an Afrikaans couple”

   “Afrikaner support”

   SynonymsAfrikaans

Other forms of afrikaner

plural

afrikaners·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about afrikaner

What does afrikaner mean?

afrikaner means "a white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in afrikaner?

afrikaner has 4 syllables: af-ri-ka-ner. The stress falls on "ka". In IPA it is /ˌæfɹəˈkɑnɚ/.

What is another word for afrikaner?

Close synonyms include Afrikander, Boer, Afrikaans. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is afrikaner a common word?

afrikaner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with afrikaner?

1 word rhymes with afrikaner. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.