afrikaner

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.