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Frontier

//ˈfɹʌntɪə// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An unincorporated community in Koochiching County, Minnesota, United States, located on the Canadian border.
  2. 2
    A city in North Dakota.
  3. 3
    An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Wyoming.
  4. 4
    A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  5. 5
    A rural municipality on the US border in south-west Saskatchewan, which includes the village; in full, the Rural Municipality of Frontier No. 19.
Noun
  1. 1
    The part of a country which borders or faces another country or unsettled region.

    "the frontier of civilization"

  2. 2
    an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development wordnet
  3. 3
    The most advanced or recent version of something; the leading edge.

    "Near-synonyms: vanguard, state of the art"

  4. 4
    an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary wordnet
  5. 5
    An outwork of a fortification. obsolete

    "thou hast talk'd. Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents, Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets"

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  1. 6
    a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To live as pioneers on frontier territory. intransitive
  2. 2
    To place on the frontier. obsolete, transitive

    "now that it is no more a Border, nor frontiered with Enemies, why should such Privileges be any more continued?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English frounter, from Old French fronter (whence Modern French frontière), from front.

Etymology 2

From Middle English frounter, from Old French fronter (whence Modern French frontière), from front.

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