Definition of Frontier

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Frontier

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.

An outwork.

Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.

Of or relating to a frontier.

To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on.

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Frontier Quotations

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
John F. Kennedy

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
George Bernard Shaw

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
Tadao Ando

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Charles Kettering

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
Charles Kettering

The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.
Paul Harris

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.
Gene Tierney

We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.
Edwin Powell Hubble

They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.
Bruce Boxleitner

The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.
Nelson A. Miles

Frontier Translations

frontier in Afrikaans is grens
frontier in Dutch is grens, perk
frontier in Finnish is raja
frontier in French is limite
frontier in German is Landesgrenze, Grenze
frontier in Italian is frontiera
frontier in Norwegian is grense
frontier in Portuguese is fronteira
frontier in Spanish is frontera, linde

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