Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as a frontier town.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.
2. Of or relating to a frontier.
1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.
2. An outwork.
To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on.
Guarded on the frontiers.
Placed on the frontiers.
of Floatiersman
Contiguity Roget’s Thesaurus §199
N. contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, # abuttal, juxtaposition, abutment, osculation, meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence, adhesion, touching, (see touch 379), borderland, frontier, tangent, abutter
V. be contiguous, join, adjoin, abut on, march with, graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide, coexist, adhere, juxtapose, contact, join (unite) 43, link (vinculum) 45
Adj. contiguous, touching, in contact, conterminous, end to end, osculatory, pertingent|, tangential, hand to hand, close to, with no interval, 2, linear dimensions
Limit Roget’s Thesaurus §233
N. limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, # bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale, reservation, termination, terminus, stint, frontier, precinct, marches, backwoods, boundary line, landmark, line of demarcation, line of circumvallation, pillars of hercules, rubicon, turning point, ne plus ultra, sluice, floodgate
Adj. definite, conterminate|, conterminable, terminal, frontier, bordering
Adv. thus far, thus far and no further
Phr. stick to the reservation, go beyond the pale, special
King James Bible KJV Bible
Berean Standard Bible BSB Bible
2 KJV and 2 BSB verses contain “Frontier”
Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,
Yet he did cast down their frontiers, and cut down their groves: for he had decreed to destroy all the gods of the land, that all nations should worship Nabuchodonosor only, and that all tongues and tribes should call upon him as god.