vryburger, noun
- Forms:
- Also vrijburgher, and with initial capital.
- Origin:
- Afrikaans, DutchShow more Afrikaans (from Dutch vrijburgher), vry free + burger citizen, inhabitant.
historical
free burgher. Also attributive.
1955 L.G. Green Beyond City Lights 164The vryburgers with their farms of sixty morgen were the frontiersmen of the day, and had to promise that they would remain on their farms for twenty years.
1989 Leisure 30 Dec. 4Its early development..was essential to the conquest of the interior as carried out first by explorers and then by vrijburger farmers.
free burgher. Also attributive.
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