frontier
/fɹʌnˈtɪɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The most advanced or recent version of something; the leading edge.
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A place in the United States:
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A place in the United States:
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Example Sentences
- "the frontier of civilization"
- "For two years the Easterner had been searching for his lost brother, at trading posts and Army forts all along the frontier."
- "There were not many passengers, and the journey was uneventful until the frontier was reached at Padang Besar, although an armed escort of Malay police accompanied the train from Alor Star."
- "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."
- "Unlike a boundary, which evokes the image of a line on a map and demarcates spheres of political control, the frontier is an area where colonisation is taking place....no authority is recognised as legitimate by all parties or is able to [exercise] undisputed control over the area."
- "But there is also real opposition to Nato expansion - and even to Nato's continued existence after the Cold War. This is a view shared by a very large part of Russia's military and foreign affairs establishment. Educated and trained during the Soviet period, they are still inculcated with notions of super-power military might. It has been painful for these people to see Nato's outer edge creep ever closer to what was once the frontier of the USSR."
Etymology
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /fɹʌnˈtɪɹ/
- British English: /ˈfɹʌntɪə/