Antonyms for frontiers


Grammar : Noun
Spell : fruhn-teer, fron-; also, esp. British, fruhn-teer
Phonetic Transcription : frʌnˈtɪər, frɒn-; also, esp. British, ˈfrʌn tɪər


Definition 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

Synonyms for frontiers

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