Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man who lives on the frontier.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who settles on the frontier or borders of a country, or beyond the limits of a settled or civilized region.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man living on the frontier.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who lives on the borders of a country, or in a
wild andundeveloped area on the fringes ofcivilization .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a man who lives on the frontier
Etymologies
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Examples
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The frontiersman was a trial-and-error empiricist, who believed in his own ability to fathom the depths of the problems which plagued him.
The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography George D. Wolf
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Everywhere in the colonization of America the frontiersman has been a distinct species.
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The most famous of these would be 'Father Murphy' aka frontiersman John Michael Murphy and Jonathan Garvey of 'Little House On The Prairie'.
THE HAT SQUAD: MERLIN OLSEN Toby O'B 2010
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At that time most Americans hadn't seen Lincoln, and his opponents had caricatured him as a wild frontiersman.
Mathew Brady's photographs made a president, captured reality of Civil War Jacqueline Trescott 2010
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You're also a few blocks from where American frontiersman Daniel Boone lived once lived.
Dan Lybarger: A Tale of Two Festivals: The Kansas Silent Film Festival and The True/False Documentary Film Festival Dan Lybarger 2011
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If, like frontiersman Kit Carson on his deathbed, you've ever wished that you had "time for just one more bowl of chili," this one is for you.
Gastronomy 2010
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The rugged looks that he had inherited from his parents, the face and build of a frontiersman or Wild West cowboy, embodied a maverick quality that many people in America, Europe, and the Far East secretly identified with.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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The mounted figure at the top is the famous frontiersman Kit Carson.
We're the Hekawi 2009
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After being rescued by a frontiersman, their mother spends years searching for them and eventually finds them, but they do not remember her or anything about their previous life.
um... ladyjax 2010
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You're also a few blocks from where American frontiersman Daniel Boone lived once lived.
Dan Lybarger: A Tale of Two Festivals: The Kansas Silent Film Festival and The True/False Documentary Film Festival Dan Lybarger 2011
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