Batavian

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone from Batavia; Jakartan. obsolete
  2. 2
    A member of an Indonesian ethnic group consisting of the descendants of the people living around Batavia (Jakarta) from around the 17th century.

    "By the end of the nineteenth century the diverse Indonesian ethnic group shown in the second column of Table I had lost their identity to a new sukubangsa, that of the Batavians…"

  3. 3
    Someone from the tribe of the Batavi.
  4. 4
    Someone from the tribe of the Batavi.; A Dutch person; a Dutchman or Dutchwoman. archaic, broadly, formal, historical, poetic
Adjective
  1. 1
    From Batavia; Jakartan. obsolete
  2. 2
    Pertaining to a member of an Indonesian ethnic group consisting of the descendants of the people living around Batavia (Jakarta) from around the 17th century.

    "Si Dul, a Batavian boy, is playing at sedekah with his two friends..."

  3. 3
    From the ancient Germanic tribe of the Batavi, living in the region of Batavia around Nijmegen.
  4. 4
    From the ancient Germanic tribe of the Batavi, living in the region of Batavia around Nijmegen.; Of or relating to the Netherlands; Dutch. archaic, poetic

    "The Batavian Republic was proclaimed 19 January 1795."

Example

More examples

"Indus, bodyguard of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus, from the decury of Secundus, from the Batavian Nation, lived 36 years. Here is he buried. Eumenes, his brother and heir from the society of the Germanic peoples, put him here."

Etymology

From Batavia + -an.

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