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Batavian

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Etymology

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From Batavia +‎ -an.

Adjective

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Batavian (comparative more Batavian, superlative most Batavian)

  1. (obsolete) From Batavia; Jakartan.
  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.
    • 1991, C.D. Grijns, Jakarta Malay, volume 2, page 6:
      Si Dul, a Batavian boy, is playing at sedekah with his two friends...
  3. From the ancient Germanic tribe of the Batavi, living in the region of Batavia around Nijmegen.
    1. (archaic or poetic) Of or relating to the Netherlands; Dutch.
      The Batavian Republic was proclaimed 19 January 1795.

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Noun

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Batavian (plural Batavians)

  1. (obsolete) Someone from Batavia; Jakartan.
  2. A member of an Indonesian ethnic group consisting of the descendants of the people living around Batavia (Jakarta) from around the 17th century.
    • 1967, Lance Castle, “The Ethnic Profile of Djakarta”, in Indonesia, page 156:
      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. Someone from the tribe of the Batavi.
    1. (by extension, historical, archaic, formal or poetic) A Dutch person; a Dutchman or Dutchwoman.

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