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Meaning of "backveld" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BACKVELD

backveld  [ˈbækˌvɛlt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BACKVELD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Backveld is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BACKVELD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of backveld in the English dictionary

The definition of backveld in the dictionary is a remote, sparsely populated and often primitive area.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BACKVELD


belt
bɛlt
celt
sɛlt
dealt
dɛlt
delt
dɛlt
felt
fɛlt
heartfelt
ˈhɑːtˌfɛlt
kelt
kɛlt
Lagerfeld
ˈlɑːɡəˌfɛlt
melt
mɛlt
Oldenbarneveldt
ˌɒldənˈbɑːnəˌvɛlt
pelt
pɛlt
Roosevelt
ˈrəʊzəˌvɛlt
smelt
smɛlt
snowmelt
ˈsnəʊˌmɛlt
spelt
spɛlt
Sunbelt
ˈsʌnˌbɛlt
svelte
svɛlt
umwelt
ˈʊmvɛlt
veld
fɛlt
welt
wɛlt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BACKVELD

backstreet
backstroke
backswept
backswimmer
backswing
backsword
backswordsman
backtrack
backtracking
backup
backvelder
backward
backward roll
backward somersault
backward-looking
backwardation
backwardly
backwardness
backwards
backwash

WORDS THAT END LIKE BACKVELD

battlefield
bushveld
field
geld
held
highveld
hold the field
in the field
leave the field
lowveld
renosterveld
shield
sourveld
Springfield
sweetveld
the bushveld
the highveld
the lowveld
the renosterveld
yield

Synonyms and antonyms of backveld in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «backveld» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BACKVELD

Find out the translation of backveld to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of backveld from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «backveld» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

backveld
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

backveld
570 millions of speakers

English

backveld
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

backveld
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

backveld
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

backveld
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

backveld
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

backveld
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

backveld
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Backveld
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

backveld
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

backveld
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

backveld
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Punggung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

backveld
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

backveld
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बॅकवेलल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

backveld
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

backveld
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

backveld
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

backveld
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

backveld
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

backveld
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

agterveld
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

backveld
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

backveld
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of backveld

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BACKVELD»

The term «backveld» is used very little and occupies the 160.680 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BACKVELD» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «backveld» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «backveld» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about backveld

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BACKVELD»

Discover the use of backveld in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to backveld and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Motor Weekly ...
00m. Casper. Buys. His. First. Car. A. Character. Sketch. From. the. Backveld. ( Special to “The Motor \Veekly" by Jim Dorie) Business Directory and Buyer's Guide December 17. roar Business Directory. OOM Casper had decided to buy a motor ...
2
Religion and Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective
®backveld. ̄. They engage uneasily, or not at all, with ruralenterprise, and are experienced primarilyas stories-from-the-city or as traces ontelevision screens. The new era,itistrue, hasraised the living standards for sectionsofthe ...
Stephen Ellingson, M. Christian Green, 2014
3
The Annual Register
The Backveld Boers with long memories continued to regard Germany as an old and sympathetic friend. But in addition to the demand to be permitted to remain neutral when the British Empire was at war, the records of the rebellion proved ...
Edmund Burke, 1916
4
The new Transvaal
The backveld Boer is quite uneducated and marvellously ignorant. An inspector of schools in a country district told me an angry father called on him one day and furiously demanded the dismissal of a teacher. " What has she been doing?
C. M. Bruce, 1908
5
Bliksem: Travels with a South African Dog
“My name is Larson.” I pulled out a card and showed him my name. “H'm, dat name is suspicious. Many suspicious characters running around da country dez days. You better come to da police station vit ” IIlC. The backveld Afrikaner police  ...
Thomas J. Larson, 2002
6
Canis Africanis: A Dog History of Southern Africa
141 For backveld disputation of germ theory, see Andreas, 'Lungsickness', Beinart, 'Vets', and M. Tamarkin, 'Flock and volk: ecology, culture, identity and politics among Cape Afrikaner stock farmers in the late nineteenth century' ( African ...
Lance Van Sittert, Sandra Scott Swart, 2008
7
Federalist Government in Principle and Practice
A modern example is "the Backveld" of South Africa. South Africa imposed a VAT with the very purpose of extracting taxes from poor blacks there on the poor land. The result was to sterilize the Backveld economically, Immobile Taxation in a ...
Donald P. Racheter, Richard E. Wagner, 2001
8
The Cambridge History of the British Empire
This attitude, which was at bottom responsible for the outbreak of rebellion, was the logical expression of the fears and prejudices of many of the backveld Boers and of some who were by no means of the backveld. Their minds, passionately ...
Eric Anderson Walker, 1963
9
Annual Register: A Review of Public Events for the Year ...
The Backveld Boers with long memories continued to regard Germany as an old and sympathetic friend. But in addition to the demand to be permitted to remain neutral when the British Empire was at war, the records of the rebellion proved ...
10
National Character in South African English Children's ...
She opens with the dedication: Sweet memories are writ across my heart And of my very being form a part Of thee, beloved Veld.8 The archetypal passage is to be found in the boy's story Backveld Born (1943) by E. Owen Wright, whose ...
Elwyn Jenkins, 2006

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BACKVELD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term backveld is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Curious vistas on the platteland
Here's an ordinary backveld farm boy, rescued from a life headed for the gutter. Yet, when he finds malpractice in the organisation that rescued ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Jun 14»
2
Spiritfest programme launched
Chris Mann, the award-winning playwright and poet, is also presenting a new play, “The Ballad of Dirk de Bruin”, about how a backveld farm ... «Grocott's Mail Online, May 14»
3
On Jacob Zuma and Paul Kruger
They regarded him as an uneducated, ill-mannered backveld peasant steeped in bigotry - a takhaar to use the Afrikaner word. They were ... «Politicsweb, Apr 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Backveld [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/backveld>. May 2024 ».
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