A white South African farmer of Dutch, or by extension other white non-Anglo Saxon descent, especially one who is a descendant of voortrekkers
white South African person of Dutch, or by extension other non-Anglo Saxon, descent
{i} white native of Cape Province who has Dutch ancestry and who speaks Afrikaans; last name, surname
The Boers are the descendants of the Dutch people who went to live in South Africa. a white South African whose family is related to the Dutch people who settled in South Africa in the 1600s Afrikaner (boer )
A war fought from 1899 to 1902 between an alliance of the Boer governments of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State on the one hand and Great Britain on the other, over the sovereignty and commercial rights in these lands. The war ended with British victory. a war in South Africa in which the British army successfully fought against two Boer republics called the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, and made them part of the British Empire (1899-1902)
either of two wars: the first when the Boers fought England in order to regain the independence they had given up to obtain British help against the Zulus (1880-1881); the second when the Orange Free State and Transvaal declared war on Britain (1899-1902)