frontiersman

[ fruhn-teerz-muhn, fron- or, especially British, fruhn-teerz- ]
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noun,plural fron·tiers·men.
  1. a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.

Origin of frontiersman

1
An Americanism dating back to 1775–85; frontier + 's1 + -man

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How to use frontiersman in a sentence

  • There is a time for all things, even for the elemental talk of frontiersmen on a holiday.

    The Highgrader | William MacLeod Raine
  • The frontiersmen were in no humor to sit still and wait for the Indians to scalp them at their plows or burn them in their beds.

    Four American Indians | Edson L. Whitney
  • The people have something, at least, in common with the great American westward migrations and frontiersmen of a far later date.

  • But after Clark's victories on the Mississippi and the Wabash, the frontiersmen grew bolder.

    The Old Northwest | Frederic Austin Ogg
  • An aide led us to his headquarters, a small square log-house such as frontiersmen build for themselves.

    In Hostile Red | Joseph Altsheler

British Dictionary definitions for frontiersman

frontiersman

/ (ˈfrʌntɪəzmən, frʌnˈtɪəz-) /


nounplural -men
  1. (formerly) a man living on a frontier, esp in a newly pioneered territory of the US

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