Word Meanings - FRONTIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An outwork. Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak. (more info) 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;

Additional info about word: FRONTIER

An outwork. Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak. (more info) 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.

Related words: (words related to FRONTIER)

• FRONTIERSMAN
  A man living on the frontier.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• OUTWORK
  A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc. Wilhelm.
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• BORDER
  1. To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden. 2. To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region
• EXTREMELESS
  Having no extremes; infinite.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• COUNTRY CLUB
  A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
• CONFINELESS
  Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• COUNTRYSIDE
  A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. W. Black. Blackmore.
• CONFINEMENT
  1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
• UNSETTLE
  To become unsettled or unfixed; to be disordered. Shak.
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• EXTREME
  Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them. (more info) 1. The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity. 2. Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence,
• COUNTRY BANK
  A national bank not in a reserve city.
• BORDEREAU
  A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.
• REGIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.
• COUNTRYMAN
  1. An inhabitant or native of a region. Shak. 2. One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 2 Cor. xi. 26. 3. One who
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• SEA-BORDERING
  Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton.
• CONFINE
  To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of
• UPCOUNTRY
  In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry.