frontiersman
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
frontiersman (plural frontiersmen)
- A person who lives on the borders of a country, or in a wild and undeveloped area on the fringes of civilization.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 136–7:
- The inhabitant's of England's North American colonies outnumbered French Canadians some ten to one, but the French were tough, fur-trapping frontiersmen who posed a considerable military threat.
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Translations[edit]
person who resides near a border — see borderer