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trekboers

trekboers is the plural of trekboer.

Meaning of trekboer

Noun

trekboer (plural trekboers)

  1. (historical) A nomadic pastoralist descended from European settlers on the frontiers of the Dutch Cape Colony in Southern Africa.
    • Indigenous protest was tied up with the resistance of enslaved peoples and trekboers.2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 82

Noun capitalized: Trekboers

Trekboers

  1. (plural) plural of Trekboer

Questions about trekboers

What is trekboers the plural of?
Trekboers is the plural of trekboer.
What part of speech is trekboers?
Trekboers is a noun.

Words near trekboers in the dictionary

  1. Trejo
  2. Trejos
  3. Trejoses
  4. trek
  5. trekboer
  6. trekboers
  7. Trekcon
  8. Trekcons
  9. Trekdom
  10. Trekfan
  11. Trekfandom

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