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frontier

/fɹʌnˈtɪɹ/noun2 syllables

Frontier means: a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country.

Synonyms for frontier7

also used for frontier

march, marches, border, marchland, borderland, vanguard, state of the art

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What does frontier mean?3

noun

1

a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country“the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day”

2

an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary

3

an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development“he worked at the frontier of brain science”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with frontier?51

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All 51 rhymes for frontier, grouped by syllable

Frontier in a sentence

  • Frontier justice is a rough, arbitrary justice driven by necessity rather than legal procedure.Myrano_
  • Many families left to make a new life on the frontier.CM
  • Many families went west to make a new life on the frontier.CM
  • The soldiers proceeded to the frontier with caution.unknown
  • The soldiers headed for the frontier with caution.unknown
  • Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.Scott
  • This is Morocco's untamable and ungovernable frontier.Amastan

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Forms of frontier

as a noun

plural
frontiers