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Frontier
| Frontier Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Frontier?
[n] an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development; "he worked at the frontier of brain science"
[n] an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary
[n] a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country; "the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Frontier:
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antipodes |
back country |
backcountry |
backwash |
backwater |
backwoods |
bamboo curtain |
Berlin wall |
bold front |
boondock |
boondocks |
border |
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bound |
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brave face |
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break boundary |
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brush |
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bushveld |
ceiling |
China |
circumscription |
coastal |
compass |
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cutoff |
cutoff point |
dark horse |
Darkest Africa |
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determinant |
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display |
division line |
end |
enigma |
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floor |
fore |
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forepart |
forequarter |
foreside |
forests |
foreword |
fringing |
front |
front elevation |
front line |
front man |
front matter |
front page |
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frontal |
frontier post |
frontiers of knowledge |
frontispiece |
God knows where |
godforsaken place |
Greenland |
hack |
head |
heading |
hedge |
high-water mark |
hinterland |
interface |
iron curtain |
jumping-off place |
lap |
limbic |
limen |
liminal |
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line |
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littoral |
lower limit |
low-water mark |
march |
marches |
marchland |
marginal |
mark |
matter of ignorance |
mete |
mystery |
n |
North Pole |
nowhere |
obverse |
outback |
Outer Mongolia |
outer space |
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outpost |
outskirts |
Pago Pago |
pale |
Pillars of Hercules |
pole |
preface |
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priority |
proscenium |
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riddle |
rimming |
sealed book |
Siberia |
skirting |
South Pole |
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sticks |
target date |
term |
terminal |
terminal date |
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terra incognita |
the boondocks |
the bush |
the Great Divide |
the incalculable |
the moon |
the South Seas |
the sticks |
the strange |
the tullies |
the unfamiliar |
the unknowable |
the unknown |
three-mile limit |
threshold |
Thule |
Tierra del Fuego |
timbers |
Timbuktu |
time allotment |
twelve-mile limit |
Ultima Thule |
unexplored ground |
unexplored territory |
uninhabited region |
unknown quantity |
unsettled |
up-country |
upper limit |
virgin land |
virgin territory |
wasteland |
wild West |
wilderness |
wilds |
window dressing |
woodlands |
woods |
x |
Yukon |
z
See Also | bailiwick |
bound |
boundary |
bounds |
branch of knowledge |
discipline |
field |
field of study |
study |
subject |
subject area |
subject field |
wild |
wilderness
Frontier In Webster's Dictionary
\Fron"tier\, n. [F. fronti[`e]re, LL. frontaria. See
{Front}.]
1. 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. (Fort.) An outwork. [Obs.]
Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. --Shak.
\Fron"tier\, a.
1. Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a
frontier town.
2. Of or relating to a frontier. ``Frontier experience.''
--W. Irving.
\Fron"tier\, v. i.
To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with
on. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple.
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