frontier

Speech parts

1. frontier - Noun

2. frontier - Adjective

3. frontier - Verb

4. Frontier - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

An outwork.

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

Of or relating to a frontier.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

limit border edge boundary threshold perimeter verge borderland hinterland outskirts backcountry limits march marge bourne
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Antonyms

center dowdy central inside connector gaudy
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Hypernyms

study field subject wild bound boundary

Phrases with the word

New Frontier frontier settler upper frontier frontier zone frontier region imperial frontier

Examples

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. James A. Michener

Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier. Bruce Lee

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two. David Almond

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters. Daniel Yergin

A fair wife and a frontier castle breed quarrels. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

frontgroup fronthaul fronthauling Frontier County frontier crossing point frontier justice