frontierとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹʌntɪə/, /ˈfɹɒntɪə/, /ˈfɹʌntjə/, /ˈfɹɒntjə/, /fɹʌnˈtɪə/, /fɹɒnˈtɪə/^[1]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɹʌnˈtɪɹ/, /fɹɑnˈtɪɹ/^[2]
• (廃れた用法) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹʌnt͡ʃə/^[3]
• 韻: -ɪə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: fron‧tier

名詞

frontier (複数形 frontiers)

1. The part of a country which borders or faces another country or unsettled region.

   Synonyms: marches, border

   • 1960 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Operating a mountain main line: the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 743:

     From time to time the coaches of the Lötschberg Railway itself, which in comfort and décor can rank with the finest in Europe today, travel far from the frontiers of Switzerland on through workings such as these.

   • 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.

2. The most advanced or recent version of something; leading edge.

   the frontier of civilization

3. (obsolete) An outwork of a fortification.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:

     thou hast talk'd. Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,
     Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets

派生語

動詞

frontier (三人称単数 現在形 frontiers, 現在分詞 frontiering, 過去形および過去分詞形 frontiered)

1. (intransitive) To live as pioneers on frontier territory.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To place on the frontier.
   • 1596 (date written; published 1633)​, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], OCLC 606546850; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, OCLC 22906028:

     now that it is no more a Border, nor frontiered with Enemies, why should such Privileges be any more continued?

参照

Further reading

• “frontier”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.