Associations to the word «Boer»

Wiktionary

BOER, noun. A Dutch colonist in South Africa, or one of their (white) descendants, especially a farmer; an Afrikaner.
BOER, noun. A militant in the Boer War

Dictionary definition

BOER, noun. A white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne