Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun boer_war

1 sense of boer war

Sense 1
Boer War -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> war, warfare -- (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war")