frontiersman
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of frontiersman
An Americanism dating back to 1775–85; frontier ( def. ) + 's 1 + -man
Example Sentences
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The frontiersman poet Joaquin Miller was assigned to write about a week spent on Wall Street.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 28, 2025
He even made the dubious claim of having gone hunting with the famed frontiersman Daniel Boone in Kentucky around 1810, even though Boone was in his 70s at the time and living in Missouri.
From New York Times • May 8, 2024
He looked every inch the frontiersman — except for the swimming pool in the background.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2024
A half-century later, that encounter has become the life’s work of this former Seattle dentist turned Alaskan frontiersman.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 23, 2023
At the time of Anna’s murder, the Osage County sheriff, who carried the bulk of responsibility for maintaining law and order in the area, was a fifty-eight-year-old, three-hundred-pound frontiersman named Harve M. Freas.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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