frontier

See also: Frontier

English

From Old French fronter (whence Modern French frontière), from front.

frontier (plural frontiers)

The part of a country which borders or faces another country or unsettled region
- 1979, Richard Elphic and Hermann Guilomee (editors), The shaping of South African Society, 1652 - 1820, page 297:
  Unlike a boundary, which evokes the image of a line on a map and demarcates spheres of political control, the frontier is an area where colonisation is taking place....no authority is recognised as legitimate by all parties or is able to excersise undisputed control over the area.
The most advanced or recent version of something; leading edge.
the frontier of civilization
(obsolete) An outwork of a fortification.
- Shakespeare
  Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets.

Terms derived from frontier

part of a country that fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region

Arabic: حَدّ‎‎ (ar) m (ḥadd), حُدُود‎‎ m pl (ḥudūd)
Armenian: սահման (hy) (sahman)
Belarusian: мяжа́ f (mjažá), грані́ца f (hraníca)
Bulgarian: граница (bg) f (granica)
Catalan: frontera (ca) f
Chinese:
Gan: 國界, 国界 (goet7 gai4)

Mandarin: 邊界 (zh), 边界 (zh) (biānjiè), 邊疆 (zh), 边疆 (zh) (biānjiāng), 邊境 (zh), 边境 (zh) (biānjìng), 國境 (zh), 国境 (zh) (guójìng), 國界 (zh), 国界 (zh) (guójiè)
Czech: pohraničí (cs) n, pomezí n, hranice (cs) f
Dutch: grens (nl), landgrens
Finnish: raja (fi) (border); rajaseutu, rajamaa (fi) (areas near the border)
French: frontière (fr) f
German: Grenze (de) f, Landesgrenze (de) f, Staatsgrenze (de) f
Greek: σύνορο (el) n (sýnoro)
Ido: frontiero (io)
Italian: confine (it) f, frontiera (it) f

Japanese: 境界 (ja) (きょうかい, kyōkai), 国境 (ja) (こっきょう, kokkyō)
Korean: 경계 (ko) (gyeonggye), 국경 (ko) (gukgyeong)
Latin: finis (la)
Latvian: robeža (lv) f, pierobeža f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: landegrense m, f

Nynorsk: landegrense f
Polish: granica (pl)
Portuguese: fronteira (pt) f
Russian: грани́ца (ru) f (graníca), рубе́ж (ru) m (rubéž), окра́ина (ru) f (okráina), межа́ (ru) f (mežá), кордо́н (ru) m (kordón)
Slovak: hranica f
Slovene: meja (sl) f
Spanish: frontera (es) f
Swedish: landgräns (sv) c, gräns (sv) c
Ukrainian: кордо́н (uk) m (kordón), грани́ця f (hranýcja)

frontier

lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous

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