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baasskap

baasskap noun: dominion, control, or supremacy, especially of white South Africans over nonwhite peoples.

Noun

baasskap (uncountable)

  1. (South Africa) Dominion, control, or supremacy, especially of white South Africans over nonwhite peoples.
    • African teachers were not permitted to criticize the government or any school authority. It was intellectual baasskap, a way of institutionalising inferiority.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 195

Forms of baasskap

alternative formbaaskaap
alternative formbaaskap
alternative formbasskap
alternative formbasskaap

Origin of baasskap

Borrowed from Afrikaans baasskap, from baas (“boss”) + -skap (“hood”).

Questions about baasskap

What does baasskap mean?
Baasskap means dominion, control, or supremacy, especially of white South Africans over nonwhite peoples.
What part of speech is baasskap?
Baasskap is a noun.

Words near baasskap in the dictionary

  1. Baars
  2. baas
  3. baases
  4. baaskaap
  5. baaskap
  6. baasskap
  7. Baaster
  8. Baasters
  9. Baath
  10. Baathi
  11. Baathis

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