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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.

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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.

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