frontier

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The country, too, is more difficult, the obstacles to movement, which also favour defence, increasing as the frontier is approached, and culminating on the borders of the Free State and the Transvaal.

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  1. noun An international border.
  2. noun The area along an international border.
  3. noun A region just beyond or at the edge of a settled area.
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  • But sterner duties on the frontier were awaiting him, and very quickly he was back there and writing to his fiancee We have begun our march for the Ohio. —  The True George Washington [10th Ed.]
  • As a result this frontier was as much economic as geographical, and the relaxed restraints of civilization on the one loosened inhibitions on the other. —  Three Roads to Alamo
  • He hoped to be able to go in a few more days, and meanwhile exhorted his friend Randall Jones that “our frontier is attacked ; who says now that we shall not fight.” The metal of Texas was hot enough at last. —  Three Roads to Alamo
  • "Those two protected areas that straddle the frontier could be the stronghold for lions in central Africa - the largest population," says University of Wisconsin-Madison environmental studies professor Adrian Treves, the study's lead author. —  innovations-report
  • The Roman Empire ended: but we will misunderstand its end if we think that over the frontier was a monolithic barbaric darkness which eventually engulfed the Empire. —  Westminster Wisdom
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border ·  coast ·  territory ·  boundary ·  province ·  settlement ·  fortress ·  capital ·  outpost ·  district ·  conquest ·  continent

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frontier:   frontiers
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English frountier, from Old French frontier, from front, forehead, front; see front.

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  1. Cf. Middle English frounter, front, fore side; from Old French frontiere, the frontier, border of a country, French frontière = Spanish frontera = Portuguese fronteira = Italian frontiera, frontier, cf. Provencal fronteira, the forehead, from Middle Latin fronteria, properly frontaria, frontier, from Latin frons (front-), front: see front.
  2. from frontier, n.
 

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