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Plural of frontier

regular plural

The plural of frontier is frontiers.

Forms of frontier

Singularfrontier /ˈfɹʌntɪə/
Pluralfrontiers
Countablecountable

Frontiers in a sentence

  • From time to time the coaches of the Lötschberg Railway itself, which in comfort and décor can rank with the finest in Europe today, travel far from the frontiers of Switzerland on through workings such as these.1960 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Operating a mountain main line: the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 743
  • The demise of “de minimis”, as the exemption is known, is the latest, symbolic reminder to digital darlings that frontiers exist—and that business models built on their absence are in need of a rethink.2025 September 4, “What the splinternet means for big tech: Unpleasant new trade-offs, for starters”, in The Economist
  • At the frontiers where Yamnaya pastoralists interacted with settled agriculturalists, local variants developed among bilingual populations.2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The…. From the entry Yamnaya
  • Trump's victory means the Muskification of the media will continue conquering new frontiers.2024 November 10, Clayton Wiemers, “Welcome to the Muskification of Media”, in Newsweek, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2024. From the entry Muskification
  • Transsexual people (and others) need to realize that treatment is constrained by the frontiers of medical knowledge.1992, Dallas Denny, “Commentary: The Importance of Informed Consent”, in Chrysalis Quarterly, volume 1, number 4, →ISSN, page 55, column 3. From the entry phalloplastician

Meaning of frontier

  1. noun The part of a country which borders or faces another country or unsettled region.
  2. noun The most advanced or recent version of something; the leading edge.
  3. noun An outwork of a fortification.

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Questions about the plural of frontier

What is the plural of frontier?
The plural of frontier is frontiers.
Is frontier countable?
Frontier is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frontier (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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