batavian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.64 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
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; Betawi.
adj
From the ancient Germanic tribe of the Batavi, living in the region of Batavia around Nijmegen.
Archaic
noun
A member of the Betawi, an Indonesian ethnic group consisting of the descendants of the people living around Batavia (Jakarta) from around the 17th century.
Example Sentences
- "Si Dul, a Batavian boy, is playing at sedekah with his two friends..."
- "The Batavian Republic was proclaimed 19 January 1795."
- "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…"
Etymology
From Batavia + -an.