frontierとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɹʌnˈtɪɹ/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /fɹʌnˈtɪə/
• 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
   • 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, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by 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

同意語

• (part of country bordering another): marches; the border

派生語

形容詞

frontier

1. Lying on the exterior part; bordering; coterminous.

   a frontier town

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.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)