Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

basterland

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: baster-land
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Another name for Rehoboth, a bantustan in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Baster people in the area around the town of Rehoboth.

Questions

What does basterland mean?: Another name for Rehoboth, a bantustan in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Baster people in the area around the town of Rehoboth.

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