Afrikaner

noun

Af·​ri·​ka·​ner ˌa-fri-ˈkä-nər 

often attributive

: a South African of European descent whose native language is Afrikaans

Afrikanerdom

ˌa-fri-ˈkä-nər-dəm 

noun

Examples of Afrikaner in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The fall of South African apartheid In 1948, the white-nationalist Afrikaner National Party was elected to run South Africa, a country that had already been controlled by a colonial white minority government. —Benjamin Case, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from Afrikaans & Dutch, literally, "African" — more at africander

First Known Use

1820, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

Afrikaner

noun

Af·​ri·​ka·​ner ˌaf-ri-ˈkän-ər 

: a person born in South Africa whose native language is Afrikaans and whose ancestors were from Europe