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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 and undeveloped area on the fringes of civilization.

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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From frontiers +‎ man.

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