frontier

1. (satellite adjective) on the American frontier; "one of the last real frontier towns"; "hardships of frontier life"

2. (noun) an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development; "he worked at the frontier of brain science"
Related Words: branch of knowledge, discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field

3. (noun) a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country; "the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day"
Related Words: wild, wilderness

4. (noun) an international boundary or the area along such a boundary
Related Words: bound, boundary, edge



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