English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "platteland" verwys na die landelike gebiede buite stede en dorpe, tipies gekenmerk deur oop velde, plase, woude en natuurlike landskappe. Dit kan ook kleiner dorpies of gehuggies insluit met minder inwoners en minder ontwikkelde infrastruktuur as stedelike gebiede. Die platteland word dikwels geassosieer met 'n stadiger lewenstempo, tradisionele boerderypraktyke en 'n nouer verbintenis met die natuur.

Sentence Examples

  1. We rode like that for as long as we could, turning off-trail and cutting through open countryside whenever possible.
  2. The fellow slaves in my consignment were similarly clothed and bound, heads bowed low with the discomfort of their bonds, bodies wasted from their weeks dragged starving through the Russian countryside.
  3. Above it hung an oil painting showing a quaint countryside village, possibly even the one we were in now.
  4. Instead, I enjoy the rolling countryside of northwest Arkansas with the budding sycamore and maple trees, fields full of rolled hay and nonchalant cows and little rolling streams crossing the highway.
  5. Before long we were flying through the countryside again, with the luminous town quickly shrinking behind us.
  6. Clutching my meager possessions consisting of one spare robe wrapped around my shinestone that I had moved from my pocket, I watched as the countryside passed at a leisurely pace from the inside of our horse-drawn carriage.
  7. The countryside flowed by, dull, lifeless, monotonous.
  8. How would rambling around the Yorkshire countryside help?
  9. I spent a month on my own, scouring the countryside to find the prince because, despite all the evidence condemning him, I stayed true to him.
  10. I could tell them how we loved to take rambles in the countryside using a compass and a map to navigate.