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Batavians

Batavians is the plural of Batavian.

Meaning of Batavian

Noun

Batavian (plural Batavians)

  1. (obsolete) Someone from Batavia; Jakartan.
  2. A member of the Betawi, an Indonesian ethnic group consisting of the descendants of the people living around Batavia (Jakarta) from around the 17th century.
    • By the end of the nineteenth century the diverse Indonesian ethnic group shown in the second column of Table I had lost their identity to a new sukubangsa, that of the Batavians…1967, Lance Castle, “The Ethnic Profile of Djakarta”, in Indonesia, page 156
  3. Someone from the tribe of the Batavi.
    1. (archaic, broadly, formal, historical, poetic) A Dutch person; a Dutchman or Dutchwoman.

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Questions about Batavians

What is Batavians the plural of?
Batavians is the plural of Batavian.

Words near Batavians in the dictionary

  1. Batavia cassia
  2. Batavia cassias
  3. Batavian
  4. Batavian Republic
  5. Batavianization
  6. Batavians
  7. batavias
  8. Batavism
  9. Batavisms
  10. Batavo-
  11. Batavophone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Batavians (page history and authors); Batavian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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