Synonyms:
frontier
Meaning: a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country; "the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day"
Usage examples
A FRONTIER FARM.
The house of supposition, The glimmering frontier That skirts the acres of perhaps, To me shows insecure.
Lieutenant Baldwin has been on the frontier many years, and is an experienced hunter of buffalo and antelope.
It is a similar certificate, enabling him and his daughter and her child, at any time, to pass the barrier and the frontier!
OUR first Christmas on the frontier was ever so pleasant, but it certainly was most vexatious not to have that box from home.
It was bad enough in Bulgaria, but when we crossed the frontier at a place called Mustafa Pasha we struck the real supineness of the East.
The Indians had made several attacks upon settlements at other points of the frontier, but they had not repeated their incursion in the neighborhood of the lake.
The inhabitants of the opposite frontier served in her narratives to fill up the parts which ogres and giants with seven-leagued boots occupy in the ordinary nursery tales.
If it is true, as wise students declare, that the frontier has been the nursery of our democratic ideas, we may well ask what effect the closing of the frontier will have on our national sentiment and on our material prosperity.
At last, when everything else had failed, she managed to make her brother, who was king of the neighbouring country, declare war against the emperor, and besiege some of the frontier towns with a large army. This time her scheme was successful.