BOER WAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Boer War mean? 

• BOER WAR (noun)
  The noun BOER WAR has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: BOER WAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOER WAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)

Domain region:

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)