frontier

frontier has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• n.. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.
• n.. An outwork.
• a.. Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.
• a.. Of or relating to a frontier.
• v. i.. To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on.
• n.. an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development; "he worked at the frontier of brain science"
• n.. an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary
• n.. a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country; "the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day"