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frʌnˈtɪər, frɒn-; also, esp. Brit., ˈfrʌn tɪərfron·tier

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. frontiernoun

    a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country

    "the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day"

  2. frontiernoun

    an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary

  3. frontiernoun

    an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development

    "he worked at the frontier of brain science"

Wiktionary

  1. frontiernoun

    That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.

  2. frontieradjective

    Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous.

    a frontier town

  3. frontieradjective

    Of or relating to a frontier.

  4. Etymology: From fronter (whence Modern French frontière), from front.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Frontieradjective

    Bordering.

    A place there lies on Gallia’s utmost bounds,
    Where rising seas insult the frontier grounds. Addison.

  2. Frontiernoun

    The marches; the limit; the utmost verge of any territory; the border: properly that which terminates not at the sea, but fronts another country.

    Etymology: frontiere, French.

    Draw all the inhabitants of those borders away, or plant garrisons upon all those frontiers about him. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

    I upon my frontiers here
    Keep residence,
    That little which is left so to defend. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

Wikipedia

  1. Frontier

    A frontier is the political and geographical area near or beyond a boundary. A frontier can also be referred to as a "front". The term came from French in the 15th century, with the meaning "borderland"—the region of a country that fronts on another country (see also marches). Unlike a border—a rigid and clear-cut form of state boundary—in the most general sense a frontier can be fuzzy or diffuse. For example, the frontier between the Eastern United States and the Old West in the 1800s was an area where European American settlements gradually thinned out and gave way to Native American settlements or uninhabited land. The frontier was not always a single continuous area, as California and various large cities were populated before the land that connected those to the East. Frontiers and borders also imply different geopolitical strategies. In Ancient Rome, the Roman Republic experienced a period of active expansion and creating new frontiers. From the reign of Augustus onward, the Roman borders turned into defensive boundaries that divided the Roman and non-Roman realms. In the eleventh-century China, China's Song Dynasty defended its northern border with the nomadic Liao empire by building an extensive manmade forest. Later in the early twelfth century, Song Dynasty invaded the Liao and dismantled the northern forest, converting the former defensive border into an expanding frontier.In modern history, colonialism and imperialism has applied and produced elaborate use and concepts of a frontier, especially in the settler colonial states of North America, expressed by the "Manifest Destiny" and "Frontier Thesis". Mobile frontiers was discussed during the Schengen convention. It was used by Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru to describe Mao Zedong's actions of grabbing Indian territory before and during the 1962 War through a creeping process. Albert Nevett, in his 1954 book "India Going Red?" wrote that "The Empire of Soviet Communism has 'mobile frontiers'".

ChatGPT

  1. frontier

    Frontier generally refers to a border, boundary, or a limit beyond which something extends or occurs. It can also represent an area or field of activity, knowledge, or exploration that is uncharted or yet to be fully explored. The term originated from the geographical context, referring to the westernmost part of a country, where the land is wild and unsettled.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Frontiernoun

    that part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization

  2. Frontiernoun

    an outwork

  3. Frontieradjective

    lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town

  4. Frontieradjective

    of or relating to a frontier

  5. Frontierverb

    to constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on

  6. Etymology: [F. frontire, LL. frontaria. See Front.]

Wikidata

  1. Frontier

    A frontier is the political and geographical areas near or beyond a boundary. The term came from French in the 15th century, with the meaning "borderland"—the region of a country that fronts on another country. The word "frontier" also means a region at the edge of a settled area, especially in North American development. It is a transition zone where explorers, pioneers and settlers were arriving. That is, as pioneers moved into the "frontier zone", they were changed by the encounter. That is what Frederick Jackson Turner calls "the significance of the frontier." For example, Turner argues that, in United States' 1893, one change was that unlimited free land in this zone was available, and thus offered the psychological sense of unlimited opportunity. This, in turn, had many consequences such as optimism, future orientation, shedding of restraints due to land scarcity, and wastefulness of natural resources.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Frontier

    front′ēr, n. the boundary of a territory: (Shak.) an outwork.—adj. lying on the frontier: bordering.—v.t. (Spens.) to place on the frontier.—n. Front′iersman, one settled on the borders of a country. [O. Fr. frontier—L. frons.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. frontier

    The limits or borders of a country.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. frontier

    That part of a country which fronts or faces another country; the marches; the border, confines, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; hence, a fortified or guarded position. Also, lying on the exterior part; as, a frontier town. Acquired on a frontier; as, frontier experience.

Editors Contribution

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    Rank popularity for the word 'frontier' in Nouns Frequency: #2456

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of frontier in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of frontier in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of frontier in a Sentence

  1. Charles Robertson:

    It's not easy to pull money out of Nigeria, the market is not that liquid. I suspect people who had maturing bonds have been taking money out and equity funds who were receiving cash have been putting it elsewhere (in other frontier markets).

  2. Bill Franke:

    It's beneficial to the consumer. It's beneficial to the employees, beneficial to the communities that Frontier Airlines on Monday serve, and at the end of the day, even on combination, these two airlines will control less than 10 % of the market.

  3. Satinder Bindra:

    We know more about the surface of the Moon and Mars than our own backyard. This in the 21st century is something that we are working to correct, for too long now we have treated our own oceans as a forgotten frontier.

  4. Eric Monday:

    It’s a green and red flag, it was designed by my ancestor, Leonard Helms, who helped George Rogers Clark conquer the old western frontier. They didn’t have any white or blue material, so he designed it using green and red.

  5. Father Antonio Spadaro:

    This continent in many ways represents a frontier for the Church, inter-religious dialogue is tested every day and young Churches there are growing.

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