Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A man who lives on the frontier.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who settles on the frontier or borders of a country, or beyond the limits of a settled or civilized region.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who lives on the borders of a country, or in a wild and undeveloped area on the fringes of civilization.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A man living on the frontier.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a man who lives on the frontier
Etymologies
- From frontiers + man. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The frontiersman was a trial-and-error empiricist, who believed in his own ability to fathom the depths of the problems which plagued him.”
The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography
“Everywhere in the colonization of America the frontiersman has been a distinct species.”
“The most famous of these would be 'Father Murphy' aka frontiersman John Michael Murphy and Jonathan Garvey of 'Little House On The Prairie'.”
“If, like frontiersman Kit Carson on his deathbed, you've ever wished that you had "time for just one more bowl of chili," this one is for you.”
“The rugged looks that he had inherited from his parents, the face and build of a frontiersman or Wild West cowboy, embodied a maverick quality that many people in America, Europe, and the Far East secretly identified with.”
“After being rescued by a frontiersman, their mother spends years searching for them and eventually finds them, but they do not remember her or anything about their previous life.”
“You're also a few blocks from where American frontiersman Daniel Boone lived once lived.”
“At that time most Americans hadn't seen Lincoln, and his opponents had caricatured him as a wild frontiersman.”
The Washington Post: Mathew Brady's photographs made a president, captured reality of Civil War
“The mounted figure at the top is the famous frontiersman Kit Carson.”
“It was the story of a rugged frontiersman, a trapper, who was looking for a wife.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘frontiersman’.
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Man
Everything that contains a man in it
taxman, salesman, common man, spaceman, neolithic man, straw man, seaman, fireman, spiderman, overman, old man, con man and 373 more...
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newspaper names
Feel free to combine these in any way to create your own newspaper. Use lots of hyphens! (And yes, these are all used at real newspapers.)
times, union, post, dispatch, outlook, star, news, courier, herald, advertiser, daily, eagle and 178 more...
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Journey of a 300-Year-Old House
If you read this in order from top to bottom, the word progression suggests the "lifespan" of a 300-year-old house in Pennsylvania.
national register..., volunteers, storage, visitors, library, curator, quarters, caretaker, hardware, beam, chamfered, joists and 42 more...
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A fortiori
Latin; from a stronger even more certain for an even stronger reason
desquamation, certissima, bien pensant, sinestesia, ausgezeichnet, birdcall, frontiersman, wandering, jotunheim, caravanserai, lusus naturae
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