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- Dictionaryfrontier/ˈfrʌntɪə/
noun
- 1. a line or border separating two countries: "international crime knows no frontiers"
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FRONTIER definition: 1. a border between two countries: 2. the western US where settlers began to move to live in the…. Learn more.
The meaning of FRONTIER is a border between two countries. How to use frontier in a sentence.
The noun frontier has several meanings. It can refer to the wilderness at the edge of a settled area (picture covered wagons pushing westward) or it can mean a field of study that has not yet been explored (picture genetically engineering pet dinosaurs).
FRONTIER meaning: 1. a border between two countries: 2. the western US where settlers began to move to live in the…. Learn more.
[singular] the edge of land where people have settled and built towns, beyond which the country is wild and unknown, especially in the western US in the 19th century. a remote frontier settlement. America's wild frontier. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
noun. the part of a country that borders another country; boundary; border. the land or territory that forms the furthest extent of a country's settled or inhabited regions. Often frontiers.
1. countable noun. A frontier is a border between two countries. [British] It wasn't difficult then to cross the frontier. regional note: in AM, usually use border. Synonyms: border, limit, edge, bound More Synonyms of frontier. 2. countable noun.
the line that separates two countries or areas; the land near this line: a national park on the border between Montana and Wyoming. a line that marks the edges of an area of land and separates it from other areas: The fence marked the boundary between my property and hers.
a line or border between two countries. the frontiers of sth. the limits of what is known or what has been done before in an area of knowledge or activity: the frontiers of science and technology.
A frontier is a political and geographical term referring to areas near or beyond a boundary. United States. In the United States, the frontier was the term applied by scholars to the impact of the zone of land beyond the region of existing European occupation.
