frontiersmannoun [ C ]
uk/frʌnˈtɪəz.mən/us/frʌnˈtɪrz.mən/plural -men uk/-mən/usa person who lives on the border between cultivated land (= land used to grow crops) and wild land, especially in the past in the US:
The book portrays him as a heroic frontiersman of the Wild West.
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People who live or settle somewhere
- asylum seeker
- brain drain
- bum
- city slicker
- cohabitant
- cottager
- exodus
- foreign-returned
- guest worker
- illegal alien
- illegal immigrant
- lodger
- outflow
- overspill
- resident
- roomer
- settler
- son
- squatter
- welcome wagon
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