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frontierman

frontierman is the alternative form of frontiersman.

Meaning of frontiersman

Noun

frontiersman (plural frontiersmen)

  1. A person who lives on the borders of a country, or in a wild and undeveloped area on the fringes of civilization.
    • 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.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 136–7

Forms of frontierman

pluralfrontiermen

Origin of frontierman

From frontier + -man.

Questions about frontierman

What is frontierman the alternative form of?
Frontierman is the alternative form of frontiersman.

Words near frontierman in the dictionary

  1. frontierist
  2. frontierists
  3. frontierless
  4. frontierlessness
  5. frontierlike
  6. frontierman
  7. frontiermen
  8. frontiers
  9. frontiersman
  10. frontiersmanship
  11. frontiersmen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frontierman (page history and authors); frontiersman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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