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frontiersman

noun

Etymology

From frontiers + man.

  1. inherited from *mon-✻ — “human being, man”
  2. inherited from *mann-✻ — “man”
  3. inherited from *mann✻
  4. inherited from mann — “human being, person, man”
  5. inherited from man
  6. compounded as frontiersman — “frontier + man”

Definitions

  1. A person who lives on the borders of a country, or in a wild and undeveloped area on the…

    A person who lives on the borders of a country, or in a wild and undeveloped area on the fringes of civilization.

    • The inhabitant's of England's North American colonies outnumbered French Canadians some ten to one, but the French were tough, fur-trapping frontiersmen who posed a considerable military threat.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA