frontier
IPA: frʌntˈɪr
noun
- The part of a country which borders or faces another country or unsettled region.
- The most advanced or recent version of something; leading edge.
- (obsolete) An outwork of a fortification.
- An unincorporated community in Koochiching County, Minnesota, United States, located on the Canadian border.
- A city in North Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Wyoming.
- A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- The Rural Municipality of Frontier No. 19, a rural municipality on the US border in south-west Saskatchewan, which includes the village.
verb
- (intransitive) To live as pioneers on frontier territory.
- (transitive, obsolete) To place on the frontier.
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Examples of "frontier" in Sentences
- Her place is on the true frontier.
- The frontiers of the empire did not hinder trade.
- Blunt was appointed to command the District of the Frontier.
- The battle resulted in no wholesale collapse of the frontier.
- The provost was to escort the Jews to the frontier of the kingdom.
- The Irish and the Jews and the blacks had freedom in the frontier.
- The internal stabilization of the state was not matched on the frontiers.
- At the western frontier is the tableland of Falari and the Gulf of Myrtos.
- It is the frontier river between Armenia and the country of the Carduchians.
- On the north the disordered kingdom of the Sikhs was threatening the frontier.