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frontier
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[ noun ] an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary
Used in print (Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)Family survival on our own Western frontier , for_example , could quite literally depend_on a man 's strength and ability to bring_home_the_bacon ; and the dependent wife seldom questioned his judgment about anything , including the marriage bed . (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)Thus at the same time that William_Henry_Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana_Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe , Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North_American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier . As the time drew_near for the drawing of the British American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818 , the company suspected that the Pembina_colony - its own post and Fort_Daer - was on American territory . (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)As a consequence of the tensions thus produced in his thoughts and feelings , he wrote on_the_one_hand sketches of idealized hunting trips and on_the_other an anecdote of the village of Hardscrabble , Arkansas , where no one had ever seen a piano ; and he wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor , `` The_Big_Bear_of_Arkansas '' , in which earthy realism is placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods tall-tale and the awe with which man contemplates the grandeur and the mysteries of nature . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (geography) a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country
Examples "the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day" Used in print (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)For the last two years , this frontier of the arts has produced a number of so-called `` non dramas '' which have left indelible , bittersweet impressions on the psyche of_this veteran theatregoer . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] on the American frontier
Examples "one of the last real frontier towns" "hardships of frontier life" Used in print (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)The popularity of local color literature before the Spanish-American_War , the steady currency of the Lincoln myth , the increased emphasis on the frontier west in our mass_media are cases_in_point . On the other we have the flag_wavers and the national sentimentalists who have been willing to use any patriotic , `` frontier western '' or colonial material willy-nilly . Related terms |
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[ noun ] an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development
Examples "he worked at the frontier of brain science" Related terms |
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