Synonyms for frontiers

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fruhn-teer, fron-; also, esp. British, fruhn-teer

Phonetic Transcription : frʌnˈtɪər, frɒn-; also, esp. British, ˈfrʌn tɪər

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Définition of frontiers

Origin : c.1400, from Old French frontier "prow of a ship, front rank of an army" (13c.), noun use of adjective frontier "facing, neighboring," from front "brow" (see front (n.)).
Originally the front line of an army, sense of "borderland" is first attested early 15c. In reference to North America, from 1670s; later with a specific sense:
What is the frontier? ... In the census reports it is treated as the margin of that settlement which has a density of two or more to the square mile. [F.J. Turner, "The Frontier in American History," 1920]
Frontiersman is from 1782.

noun boundary
noun unexplored, unoccupied area of land

Example sentences :

Within its frontiers there was peace for two or three hundred years.
Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne

Over the frontiers they come with their jewels, their plate, and their money-chests.
Extract from : « The Trampling of the Lilies » by Rafael Sabatini

One of Virginia's frontiers at this time was the Eastern Shore.
Extract from : « Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 » by Wilcomb E. Washburn

Russians will stream over your frontiers and settle in your cities.
Extract from : « The Traitors » by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Why should we have all those thousands of miles of frontiers to defend?
Extract from : « Mary Gray » by Katharine Tynan

Now other Roman soldiers, also, had been stationed at the frontiers of Gaul to serve as guards.
Extract from : « Procopius » by Procopius

That seemed to be typical; the frontiers of science, now, were all decimal points.
Extract from : « Ministry of Disturbance » by Henry Beam Piper

It is scarcely sixty-two miles from Cape Bernouilli to the frontiers of Victoria.
Extract from : « In Search of the Castaways » by Jules Verne

Frontiers remained exactly as they were when the first shot was fired.
Extract from : « A History of the United States » by Cecil Chesterton

The far Southwest was the oldest of all American frontiers, and the stubbornest.
Extract from : « The Story of the Outlaw » by Emerson Hough

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