Meaning of bushman | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A man who lives in or has extensive experience of the Australian bush or outback.
   Australia
2. A person who lives in the bush, especially a member of a community or ethnic group who lives in the bush.
3. A member of one of the foraging ethnic groups native to southwestern Africa, mostly the Kalahari.
   offensive, sometimes

Equivalents

Examples

“To A. B. Paterson, son of a dispossessed squatter, writing from a city office, the bushmen with their horses and simple skills were the backbone of Australia.”

“Its^([the Bulletin's]) writers shaped ‘a group myth about Australians and their destiny’; in the absence of conventional heroes, visiting the past to claim the bushman as the first ‘Australian’, the anti-hero in the struggles against empire.”

“Later, historian Russel Ward (1958) famously identified the outback bushman as the “typical” Australian – a rugged individualist, courageous and loyal to his mates.”

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