5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontier \Fron"tier\, v. i.
To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with
on [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontier \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontier \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
frontier
adj : on the American frontier; "one of the last real frontier
towns"; "hardships of frontier life" [syn: {frontier(a)}]
n 1: an international boundary or the area along such a boundary
2: a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country;
"the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's
day"
3: an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and
development; "he worked at the frontier of brain science"
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Frontier, ND (city, FIPS 28720)
Location: 46.80038 N, 96.83301 W
Population (1990): 218 (57 housing units)
Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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