FRONTIER: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for FRONTIER?

Need another word that means the same as “frontier”? Find 18 synonyms and 30 related words for “frontier” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Frontier” are: border, boundary, partition, borderline, dividing line, bounding line, demarcation line, limit, end, edge, side, farthest point, boundary line, bound, partition line, end point, cut-off point, termination

Frontier as a Noun

Definitions of "Frontier" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “frontier” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• The extreme limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness, especially in reference to the western US before Pacific settlement.
• An undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development.
• A wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country.
• An international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary.
• A line or border separating two countries.
• The extreme limit of understanding or achievement in a particular area.

Synonyms of "Frontier" as a noun (18 Words)

border	A district near the border between two areas. A refugee camp on the border.
borderline	A boundary separating two countries or areas. The borderline between ritual and custom.
bound	A line determining the limits of an area. I went up the steps in two effortless bounds.
boundary	A limit of something abstract, especially a subject or sphere of activity. The river marks the boundary between the two regions.
boundary line	The greatest possible degree of something.
bounding line	The greatest possible degree of something.
cut-off point	A contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs.
demarcation line	A telephone connection.
dividing line	A ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems.
edge	A slight competitive advantage. The cliff edge.
end	The point in time at which something ends. Both ends wrote at the same time.
end point	A piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold.
farthest point	The object of an activity.
limit	Final or latest limiting point. It is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight.
partition	The act of dividing or partitioning separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart. The cafe was divided up by glass partitions.
partition line	The part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit.
side	Spin given to the cue ball in snooker and billiards by hitting it on one side. The hypotenuse of a right triangle is always the longest side.
termination	An act of dismissing someone from employment. A good result and a happy termination.

Usage Examples of "Frontier" as a noun

• International crime knows no frontiers.
• He worked at the frontier of brain science.
• The frontier between thought and reality is confused.
• His novel of the American frontier.
• The success of science in extending the frontiers of knowledge.
• An end to frontier controls.
• The individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day.
• France's frontier with Belgium.

Associations of "Frontier" (30 Words)

bastion	A natural rock formation resembling a man made bastion. Cricket s last bastion of discrimination.
border	Provide with a border or edge. The walls were bordered with carved scrolls and cornices.
borough	Each of five divisions of New York City.
boundary	The greatest possible degree of something. The river marks the boundary between the two regions.
castle	Make a special move (no more than once in a game by each player) in which the king is transferred from its original square two squares along the back rank towards a rook on its corner square which is then transferred to the square passed over by the king. Both of the players castled on the queenside.
country	The people who live in a nation or country. The country s increasingly precarious economic position.
defensible	Justifiable by argument. A fort with a defensible yard at its feet.
delimit	Be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry. Agreements delimiting fishing zones.
demarcate	Separate or distinguish from. Art was being demarcated from the more objective science.
fort	Enclose by or as if by a fortification. The city was guarded by a ring of forts.
fortress	A person or thing not susceptible to outside influence or disturbance. He had proved himself to be a fortress of moral rectitude.
garrison	Station troops in a fort or garrison. Air reconnaissance showed the Germans had not garrisoned the island.
geographic	Determined by geography. The north and south geographic poles.
geographical	Determined by geography. The geographical distribution of plants.
near	Come near to approach. The near right hand end window of the caravan.
nearby	Not far away; close. His four sisters live nearby.
outskirts	Outlying areas (as of a city or town. They lived on the outskirts of Houston.
periphery	The outside boundary or surface of something. A shift in power from the centre to the periphery.
precinct	The police station situated in a precinct. A pedestrian precinct.
protector	The title of the head of state in England during the later period of the Commonwealth between 1653 and 1659, first Oliver Cromwell (1653–8), then his son Richard (1658–9). A man who became her protector adviser and friend.
remote	A remote control device. A remote contingency.
seacoast	The shore of a sea or ocean.
settler	A person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country or area. The early European settlers in America were often fleeing from religious persecution.
skirt	Informal terms for a (young) woman. He did not go through the city but skirted it.
slum	Spend time at a lower social level than one’s own through curiosity or for charitable purposes. The area was fast becoming a slum for the destitute.
sortie	An operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation. This latest book is the author s first sortie into non fiction.
stockade	Surround with a stockade in order to fortify. They fortified themselves strongly and stockaded the city.
tenable	Able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection. A scholarship of 200 per annum tenable for three years.
town	The chief city or town of a region. They drive through town on their way to work.
ward	The grooves in the bit of a key that correspond to the wards in a lock. I saw them keeping ward at one of those huge gates.