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frontierism

frontierism noun: support for a frontier; especially, the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that a settler colonial exceptionalism, under the guise of American democracy, was formed by appropriation of the rugged American frontier.

Noun

frontierism (uncountable)

  1. Support for a frontier; especially, the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that a settler colonial exceptionalism, under the guise of American democracy, was formed by appropriation of the rugged American frontier.

Origin of frontierism

From frontier + -ism.

Questions about frontierism

What does frontierism mean?
Frontierism means support for a frontier; especially, the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that a settler colonial exceptionalism, under the guise of American democracy, was formed by appropriation of the rugged American frontier.
What part of speech is frontierism?
Frontierism is a noun.

Words near frontierism in the dictionary

  1. Frontier County
  2. frontier orbital
  3. frontier orbitals
  4. frontiered
  5. frontiering
  6. frontierism
  7. frontierist
  8. frontierists
  9. frontierless
  10. frontierlessness
  11. frontierlike

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