frontier
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++fron·tier /ˈfrʌntɪə $ frʌnˈtɪr/ ●●○ noun 1 [countable] especially British EnglishSG the border of a country 国界，边境frontier between/with Lille is close to the frontier between France and Belgium. 里尔靠近法比边境。on/at the frontier Troops established a road block on the frontier. 部队在边境设立了一个路障。frontier town/area/post etc (=a town etc on a frontier) 边陲小镇/边疆地区/边防站等► see thesaurus at border2 the frontier SGan area where people have never lived before, that not much is known about, especially in the western US before the 20th century 〔尤指20世纪前美国西部的〕边远地区，荒野地区；边疆 a novel about a family’s struggle on the American frontier 描写一家人在美国边远地区奋斗的小说 space, the final frontier 太空，最后的边界3 the frontiers of knowledge/physics etc LIMITthe limits of what is known about something 知识/物理学等的前沿push back the frontiers (=discover new things) 开拓新领域
Examples from the Corpus
frontier• He was questioned by soldiers at a frontier post.• The dethronement of learning is one of the most exciting intellectual frontiers we are now crossing.• The study of the brain is often described as the next intellectual frontier.• They settled in Ronco, a picturesque village near the Italian frontier.• It marked a return to the general store of frontier days.• Many of the cars crossing the frontier were stopped and searched.• The geographical position of the frontier fluctuated with the fortunes of war.• Every diplomatic effort was made to get him and his army to retire back over the frontier, but without success.• Powell, like the mountain men, was compulsively drawn to the frontier.• All of this transcended the frontiers of control and undermined the employers' ability to manage.frontier between/with• There were indeed frontiers between the classes, but these were constantly shifting.• They take us across the frontiers between the material and the mystical.• Other writers undermine conventional notion of reality by blurring the frontiers between the real and the imaginary.• The government closed the frontier between Lithuania and Poland.• Such tech gangs held the frontier between the tangled civilization above and the bestiality beneath.• Meanwhile the frontier between liberalism and socialism remained open, both ideologically and organizationally.• The guards on the frontiers between art history and art criticism shoot neither intruders nor escapers.• How far is it from Belfast to the nearest and furthest points on the frontier with Eire?• Will the ever faster spread of cultural influence remove the frontiers between civilizations that were once so firm in world history?Origin frontier (1300-1400) French frontière, from front; → FRONT1fron·tier nounChineseSyllable
the Corpus country a border of
frontier
fron‧tier /ˈfrʌntɪə $ frʌnˈtɪr/
noun1. [countable] especially British English the border of a country
frontier between/with
Lille is close to the frontier between France and Belgium.
on/at the frontier
Troops established a road block on the frontier.
frontier town/area/post etc (=a town etc on a frontier)
2. the frontier an area where people have never lived before, that not much is known about, especially in the western US before the 20th century:
a novel about a family’s struggle on the American frontier
space, the final frontier
3. the frontiers of knowledge/physics etc the limits of what is known about something
push back the frontiers (=discover new things)
▪ border the official line that separates two countries, or the area close to this line: The town lies on the border between Chile and Argentina. | Strasbourg is very close to the German border. | border guards
▪frontier especially British English the border: They crossed the Libyan frontier into Egypt.
▪line the official line that separates states and counties in the US: His family lived across the state line in West Virginia.
▪boundary the line that marks the edge of an area of land that someone owns, or one of the parts of a country: The fence marks the boundary between the two properties. | The Mississippi River forms the boundary between Tennessee and Arkansas. | A road runs along the western boundary of the site.
fron‧tier /ˈfrʌntɪə $ frʌnˈtɪr/
noun1. [countable] especially British English the border of a countryfrontier between/with
on/at the frontier
frontier town/area/post etc (=a town etc on a frontier)
2. the frontier an area where people have never lived before, that not much is known about, especially in the western US before the 20th century:
3. the frontiers of knowledge/physics etc the limits of what is known about something
push back the frontiers (=discover new things)
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border the line that separates two countries or areas; the land near this line 指国界、边界、边疆、边界地区 ：◆ a national park on the border between Kenya and Tanzania 位于肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚边界的国家公园 boundary a line that marks the edges of an area of land and separates it from other areas 指边界、界限、分界线 ：◆ The fence marked the boundary between my property and hers. 那道篱笆曾是我和她的房产之间的地界。 frontier ( the line that separates two countries or areas; the land near this lineBrE 指国界、边界、边疆、边境 ：◆ The river formed the frontier between the land of the Saxons and that of the Danes. 这条河曾是撒克逊人与古斯堪的纳维亚人土地的分界线。
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