borderer

English

Etymology

From border +‎ -er.

Noun

borderer (plural borderers)

1. A person who lives near the border of a country or district, especially that between England and Scotland.
   • 1904, The Border Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume 9, page 208:

     The Borderers on the English side rieved, harried, and plundered each other with as much keenness and audacity as did the Scots on the other side.

   • 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:

     "[H]is taciturnity has long ago fled, and he is one of the most loquacious Borderers going."

   • 2011, David Gilmour, The Pursuit of Italy, Penguin, published 2012, page 341:

     As a borderer from territory that had changed hands many times in its history, De Gasperi hoped and believed that European integration would prevent future wars as well as help solve some of Italy's stoniest economic problems.

2. A soldier of a border regiment in the British Army (Border Regiment, South Wales Borderers, King's Own Scottish Borderers).

Synonyms

• frontiersman

Translations

person who resides near a border

• Galician: raioto m, arraiano m
• Greek: ακρίτας (el) m (akrítas)
• Polish: kresowiec m
• Portuguese: raiano (pt) m
• Serbo-Croatian: graničar (sh) m
• Slovak: hraničiar m
• Swedish: gränsbo (sv) c

Anagrams

• reborder