Usually means: Explorer and settler of wilderness.
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  1. frontiersman: Merriam-Webster
  2. frontiersman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. frontiersman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. frontiersman: Collins English Dictionary
  5. frontiersman: Vocabulary.com
  6. Frontiersman, frontiersman: Wordnik
  7. frontiersman: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. frontiersman: Wiktionary
  9. frontiersman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. frontiersman: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. frontiersman: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. frontiersman: Dictionary.com
  13. Frontiersman, The Frontiersman: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. frontiersman: Rhymezone
  15. frontiersman: FreeDictionary.org
  16. frontiersman: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. frontiersman: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. frontiersman: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. frontiersman: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  A person who lives on the borders of a country, or in a wild and undeveloped area on the fringes of civilization.

Similar:
backwoodsman, mountain man, frontiersperson, borderlander, borderer, outskirter, outsettler, wayfarer, confiner, land-farer, more...

Opposite:
settler, urbanite, city dweller, non-pioneer

Types:
pioneer, settler, trapper, miner, lumberjack, cowboy, rancher, more...

Phrases:
new frontiersman, more...

Adjectives:
old, american, typical, famous, experienced, young, true, western, rough, white, rugged

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Similar:
backwoodsman, mountain man, frontiersperson, borderlander, borderer, outskirter, outsettler, wayfarer, confiner, land-farer, more...

Opposite:
settler, urbanite, city dweller, non-pioneer

Types:
pioneer, settler, trapper, miner, lumberjack, cowboy, rancher, more...

Phrases:
new frontiersman, more...

Adjectives:
old, american, typical, famous, experienced, young, true, western, rough, white, rugged



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