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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BOSKOP

Named after Boskop, in the Transvaal, where remains of this race were first discovered.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BOSKOP

Boskop  [ˈbɒskɒp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BOSKOP

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adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Boskop 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 BOSKOP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Boskop

Boskop is a village 16 km north of Potchefstroom, renowned as the site of the discovery in 1913 of the first fossil skull found in South Africa. Approved for a post office, Potchefstroom, and a station on the route Potchefstroom-Welverdiend, the name is Afrikaans and means 'bush hill'.

Definition of Boskop in the English dictionary

The definition of Boskop in the dictionary is a prehistoric race of the late Pleistocene period in sub-Saharan Africa.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BOSKOP


attercop
ˈætəkɒp
cop
kɒp
hammerkop
ˈhæmərˌkɒp
kop
kɒp
scop
skɒp
supercop
ˈsuːpərˌkɒp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BOSKOP

Bose
Bose-Einstein statistics
bosh
boshter
bosk
boskage
bosker
bosket
boskier
boskiest
boskiness
bosky
Bosman ruling
Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnian

WORDS THAT END LIKE BOSKOP

crop
desktop
develop
dikkop
drop
hip-hop
hoop
hop
laptop
loop
Maikop
over the top
over-the-top
Photoshop
pop
scoop
shop
stop
top
workshop

Synonyms and antonyms of Boskop in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Boskop» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BOSKOP

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

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博斯科普
1,325 millions of speakers

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Boskop
570 millions of speakers

English

Boskop
510 millions of speakers

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Boskop
380 millions of speakers
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Boskop
280 millions of speakers

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Boskop
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Boskop
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Boskop
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Boskop
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Boskop
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Boskop
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Boskop
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Boskop
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Boskop
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Boskop
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Boskop
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बोस्कोप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Boskop
70 millions of speakers

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Boskop
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Boskop
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Boskop
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Boskop
30 millions of speakers
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Boskop
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Boskop
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Boskop
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Translator English - Norwegian

Boskop
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Trends of use of Boskop

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BOSKOP»

The term «Boskop» is normally little used and occupies the 114.303 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BOSKOP» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOSKOP»

Discover the use of Boskop in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Boskop and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Papers in African Prehistory
Galloway goes so far as to call the K2 skeletons 'a homogeneous Boskop-Bush population physically akin to the first Boskop inhabitants of the coastal caves'.45 The male skeletons from K2 are those in which the Boskopoid elements are best  ...
J. D. Fage, R. A. Oliver, 1970
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The Human Fossil Record, Craniodental Morphology of Genus ...
BOSKOP BUSKUI' BUSKUP 43. LOCATION Open-air site of Koloniesplaats, on the E. bank of the Mooi River, 7 miles N of Potchefstroom, SW Transvaal, South Africa. DISCOVERY October 1913, by workers digging agricultural trench.Various  ...
Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Ian Tattersall, 2005
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Troublemakers: The Best of South Africa's Investigative ...
It's not done through ignorance." The NSPCA laid nine charges against the business under the Animal Protection Act. There is another story in Boskop: about people rather than animals. In 1994, shortly before the first democratic elections, ...
Anton Harber, Margaret Renn, 2010
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Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa
discoveries in the years after 1918 persuaded Dart, among others, that Boskop man had at one time inhabited the entire southern African region. But the nature of the relationship between Boskop and its descendants remained a matter of ...
Saul Dubow, 1995
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Africa: Mother of Western Civilization
Boskop man, found in the Cape, is dated 50,000 years and falls into our group not that of the Negro. There are no Negro skulls of any antiquity - the oldest known is about 6000 B.C. The two Grimaldi skulls, one a woman and the other a boy, ...
Yosef Ben-Jochannan, 1988
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The Mysterious Origins of Hybrid Man: Crossbreeding and the ...
Crossbreeding and the Unexpected Family Tree of Humanity Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D. depigmentation of the modern races. Figure 11.8. Boskop Man skull; Boskop is thought to have haddeep tanor yellowtoned skin. A composite of white Ihin ...
Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D., 2013
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Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man
Kenneth Page Oakley. Olduvai 191 3 Oldoway Man H. 1 Gorge Matjes River 1929 I-IV Proto-Bush COUNTRY SITE FOUND NAME OR TYPE DATING Stratigraphical Cultural In. Transvaal Boskop 19 13 Boskop type Potchefstroom Homo ...
Kenneth Page Oakley, 1966
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
... 1868 USE Japan—History—Civil War, 1868 Bosket family (Not Subd Geog) Boskop man (May Subd Geog) [GN286.2] UF Boskop skull Homo capensis Otjisewa man BT Fossil hominids—South Africa Boskop skull USE Boskop man Bosler ...
Library of Congress, 2006
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Scenarios for a Mixed Landscape
On. Fragments. of. a. Boskop. Skull. This partial forehead, this curve to the hearing, a trembling excavator's surmise that now, at last, a race of big-brained humans, before the woolly mammoth and the great sloth : this grandmother of Hottentots ...
John Allman, 1986
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Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence
Prominent neuroscientists Gary Lynch and Richard Granger compare the contents of the Boskop brain and our own brains today, and arrive at startling conclusions about our intelligence and creativity.
Gary Lynch, Richard Granger, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOSKOP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Boskop is used in the context of the following news items.
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Rheinmetall Denel Munition output keeps rising
The factory at Somerset West produces propellants, Wellington produces chemicals, Boksburg makes forgings and Boskop does filling. «defenceWeb, May 15»
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Ievgen Khytrov To Enjoy Quick Ring Return, 4/10 in NY
comment by Boskop, on 03-09-2015. Watch this guy! comment by Killer_of_Sheep, on 03-09-2015. Yes! This kid is exciting as hell and always ... «BoxingScene.com, Mar 15»
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Two Mirror Dinghy World Championship Titles – A Story Of Mirrors …
Brennan sailed the blue Mirror with his little Boskop Yacht Club friend Sean, who still sails with the family from time to time. This regatta was ... «Afloat, Jan 15»
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Rheinmetall Denel Munition and North-West University establish …
After the signing ceremony at RDM's Boskop facility outside Potchefstroom on Thursday morning, guests were given a demonstration by RDM ... «defenceWeb, Nov 14»
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Mayweather Battles Sea of Controversy on Fight Week
comment by Boskop, on 09-13-2014. [QUOTE=nacho daddy]first time I watched the first fight. maidana has to get the same drugs as broner and ... «BoxingScene.com, Sep 14»
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Lessons from Blyvoor's demise
... flow of contaminated water into the Wonderfontein Spruit and the Boskop Dam, a key water supplier to Potchefstroom, said Mariette Liefferink ... «Mining MX, Aug 14»
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Rheinmetall Denel Munition at 100% capacity
The RDM Boskop facility. The factories belonging to Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM) are at 100% capacity, with an order book of R3 billion, ... «defenceWeb, Jul 14»
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Green Scorpions pounce on Blyvoor mine
It eventually ends up in Boskop Dam and that is one of the main sources of water for our community. We know there is a lot of neglect going on ... «Independent Online, Apr 14»
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Johannesburg's Golden Legacy Includes Radioactive Dump
Winde detected uranium levels of 53 micrograms per liter at the Boskop Dam, which supplies Potchefstroom, a town 75 miles west of ... «Bloomberg, Feb 14»
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Denel munitions unit has global ambitions
In the five years since Rheinmetall became a shareholder, R840m has been invested in the business divisions at Boksburg, Boskop, ... «Independent Online, Dec 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Boskop [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/boskop>. Apr 2024 ».
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