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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frontier \Fron"tier\, n. [F. fronti[`e]re, LL. frontaria. See Front.]
That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.
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(Fort.) An outwork. [Obs.]
Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets.
--Shak.
Frontier \Fron"tier\, a.
Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.
Of or relating to a frontier. ``Frontier experience.''
--W. Irving.
Frontier \Fron"tier\, v. i.
To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with
on. [Obs.]
--Sir W. Temple.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, frowntere, "front line of an army;" early 15c., fronture, "borderland, part of a country which faces another," from Old French frontiere "boundary-line of a country," also "frontier fortress; front rank of an army" (13c.), noun use of adjective frontier "facing, neighboring," from front "brow" (see front (n.)). In reference to North America, "part of the country which is at the edge of its settled regions" from 1670s. Later it was given 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]
Wiktionary
a. Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous. n. 1 That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization. 2 (context obsolete English) An outwork of a fortification.
WordNet
n. a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country; "the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day"
an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary
an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development; "he worked at the frontier of brain science"
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 78
Land area (2000): 0.179313 sq. miles (0.464419 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.179313 sq. miles (0.464419 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28720
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 46.800343 N, 96.833370 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Frontier
Housing Units (2000): 1543
Land area (2000): 974.549525 sq. miles (2524.071575 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 5.511605 sq. miles (14.274992 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 980.061130 sq. miles (2538.346567 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.549039 N, 100.401627 W
Headwords:
Frontier, NE
Frontier County
Frontier County, NE
Wikipedia
A frontier is the political and geographical areas near or beyond a boundary. The term came from French in the 15th century, with the meaning "borderland"—the region of a country that fronts on another country (see also marches).
The word "frontier" also means a region at the edge of a settled area, especially in North American development. It is a transition zone where explorers, pioneers and settlers were arriving. A frontier can also be referred to as a "front". A difference has also been established in academic scholarship between Frontier and Border, the latter denoting a fixed, rigid and clear-cut form of state boundary.
Frederick Jackson Turner said that "the significance of the frontier" was that as pioneers moved into the "frontier zone", they were changed by the encounter. For example, Turner argues that in the United States in 1893, unlimited free land in this zone was available, and thus offered the psychological sense of unlimited opportunity. This, in turn, had many consequences such as optimism, future orientation, shedding of restraints due to land scarcity, and wasting of natural resources.
Frontier is a geographical term referring to areas near or beyond a boundary, or of a different nature.
Frontier may also refer to:
Frontier is the central computing platform of Parabon Computation, Inc. When it was released in 2000, it was the only commercially available platform of its kind. Frontier powers both public and private networks, and boasts affiliations with two of the largest public grids: the Global Grid Exchange and the Compute Against Cancer network.
Frontier(s) is a 2007 French horror film written and directed by Xavier Gens and stars Estelle Lefébure, Samuel Le Bihan and Aurélien Wiik.
Frontier is a Bally pinball machine (produced under the Bally name) released in November 1980. It is based on the mountain man and hunting theme.
Frontier (foaled 1896) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Dewhurst Plate as a two-year-old and the Ascot Derby as a three-year-old. He was owned by the Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster and trained by John Porter at Kingsclere.
Frontier is a restaurant in West Town, Chicago, Illinois, United States. It adopts a cosy setting and serves finger food as well as novelty food, such as cooked alligator meat. Frontier is run by chef Brian Jupiter and owned by Mark Domitrovich.
Frontier is an American Western anthology series that aired on NBC from September 1955 to September 1956. The series de-emphasizes gunplay and focuses on the hazards of the settlement of the American West. It was only the second anthology Western series in television history, having been preceded by Death Valley Days.
Frontier aired premiered on September 25, 1955, and ran sporadically in its last five months. Walter Coy narrated the series and starred in occasional episodes, which are dramatizations based on actual events. The program was produced by Worthington Miner.
Frontier is an upcoming Canadian historical drama television series. Co-created by Brad Peyton, Rob Blackie and Peter Blackieand, Frontier will chronicle the North American fur trade of the 1800s.
The series will air domestically on Discovery Channel as its first original scripted production, and was acquired by Netflix for international distribution.
Frontier is a solo dance choreographed by Martha Graham to music by Louis Horst. The set was designed by Isamu Noguchi; Graham created the costume. The work began as an ensemble piece, Perspectives: Frontier and Marching Song also known as Frontiers (Perspective No. 1) and Frontier. The ballet's Marching Song portion was set to music by Lehman Engle. The work premiered on April 28, 1935, at the Guild Theatre in New York City. By the end of 1935, Graham was performing Frontier exclusively as a solo. The piece was the first of her works to explore American identity through an archetypal character.
Usage examples of "frontier".
Such was the state of the Roman frontiers, and such the maxims of Imperial policy, from the death of Augustus to the accession of Trajan.
Parachute troops had invaded the Netherlands Indies, Thailand was occupied and Indochina was opened up by the acquiescent Vichy regime, bringing the Japanese forward to the eastern frontier of Burma.
He would rouse the tribes on this side of the frontier to join his Afghani forces, he might even call on a little Russian support.
That the tide of agrarianism was gradually flowing westward as the frontier advanced is apparent from the election returns in the States bordering on the upper Mississippi.
Bundesgrenzschutz a force of West German riot police who guard airports, embassies and the border and an elderly Englishman in a curious nautical uniform worn by the British Frontier Service, which acts as guides for ail British army patrols on land, air and river.
At first glance, even on the second, Amicus looked typical of thousands of frontier pesthole villes he had passed through.
American ancestor settled as the first permanent minister beyond the mountains, following the paths of the French priests in their missions and became a member of a presbytery extending from the mountains to the setting sun, until my last collateral ancestor living among the Indians helped survey the range lines of new States and finally marked the boundaries of the last farms in the passes of the Rockies, that ancestry has followed the frontier westward from where Celoron planted the emblems of French possession along the Ohio to where Chevalier la Verendrye looked upon the snowy and impassable peaks of the Rockies.
The negotiations also stated that in all these strategic military actions the frontier lines drawn at the Second Viennese Arbitrage did not have to be taken into consideration, meaning that the Hungarian Army units could take up defense positions anywhere in the southern Carpathians.
Army would not be disarmed but would be furnished with modern equipment, that her frontiers were to stay the same as those traced in the two Viennese Arbitrage decisions and, concerning the return of the entire Transylvanian territory, a separate proposition would have to be submitted.
April 3, the German armies poured across the Polish frontier and converged on Warsaw from the north, south and west.
One, perhaps two, armoured divisions, with one motorised division, about 180 dive-bombers, and some parachute troops, seems to be all that could cross the Bulgarian-Greek frontier up till the middle of February.
But in the Transylvanian sector of the Hungarian frontier, they were in the beginning stages, and the technical engineer battalions asigned to this duty were trying to advance the state of these by working day and night on the project.
Also like others, he had long dreamed of achieving, personally, a major breakthrough, a discovery which would push back dramatically the frontiers of knowledge and place his name in the honor roll of history.
Turkish frontier, but the government is making great efforts to divert the trade to Varna and Burgas, and important harbour works have been carried out at both these ports.
The Jesuits pushed out their spiritual frontiers, advancing on the north amongst the Tobatines of the woods, and on the west endeavouring to spread their colonies amongst the Chiriguanas and other of the Chaco tribes.