English Explanatory Dictionary

Boland

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
name
  1. A region of Western Cape province, South Africa, situated to the northeast of Cape Town.

Word forms

Boland Bolands

Etymology

Various origins: * Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Beolláin (“descendant of Beollán”), a personal name of uncertain origin. * A variant of Bowland, an English habitational surname. * Borrowed from German Boland, a surname of uncertain origin.

Synonyms

Cape Winelands
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