frontier
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4.9
- noun
- /frʌnˈtɪr/
:
frontera
- After seven years indentured service in Virginia, they headed out here 'cause the frontier's the only land available to poor people.
- American frontier
- western frontier
- frontier town
He'd fought on the northwest frontier, He'd fought in Sudan.
- He'd fought on the northwest frontier, He'd fought in Sudan.
- And, and he, he would, it's cold, miserable on the frontier.
- A lot of the settings are small ranches, frontier towns, railways, military forts, things like that.
- But of course, when you start to move outwards to a new frontier, then the frontier can become crowded.
- They're always frontiersmen or people inhabiting a land beyond a frontier.
- Through their grit, determination, and incredible spirit, they pioneered the West and settled the frontier.
Examples
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Last of the wild frontier.
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Which is why it's one of the last, great unexplored frontiers on earth
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And hope to those who wanted to make this frontier land their home.
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Life on the frontier being what it is.
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You will go out there and you will take that frontier, which is largely unknown by man or woman.
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Frontier life often took a toll on young mothers.
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If we can only escape to the frontier, we will scatter and settle.
Fiction book (1997) -
Our task here is to tame this frontier.
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In the countryside or on the frontier, they underwent a transition from peasants to immigrant wage-earners.
Academic text (1991) -
The explorers ventured deep into the frontier, uncovering new lands and resources.
Synonyms
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3.0
The outer part of a town where it meets the countryside
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3.7
An area or subject that is unfamiliar and not tried before
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8.8
An area far from cities or the coast, often remote and less developed
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5.6
An area of land near the border between two countries or regions
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5.5
An area of land left in its natural state and not built on
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9.3
A very remote area far from towns and cities
Compounds
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6.5
The western United States in the 1700s and 1800s where settlers explored and lived
- NSFW
A border area where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet that is known for smuggling and other crime
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Etymology
Frontier comes from the same root as front, from Latin frons meaning 'front' or 'forehead'. So a frontier is the 'front' of settled land, the edge where people meet wild land and sometimes begin new settlements.