frontier

• n. フロンティア；国境；辺境
• adj.国境; 辺境
• n. (Frontier) 人名; (French) Frontier.

front,frontから、原義は前線部隊、辺境。その後、アメリカ西部開拓時代の開拓者や辺境住民に使われるようになった。

frontier (n.)

c. 1400, frowntere, "front line of an army;" early 15c., fronture, "borderland, part of a country which faces another," from Old French frontiere "boundary-line of a country," also "frontier fortress; front rank of an army" (13c.), noun use of adjective frontier "facing, neighboring," from front "brow" (see front (n.)). In reference to North America, "part of the country which is at the edge of its settled regions" from 1670s. Later it was given a specific sense:

What is the frontier? ... In the census reports it is treated as the margin of that settlement which has a density of two or more to the square mile. [F.J. Turner, "The Frontier in American History," 1920]

1. A " frontier -free "Europe implies a greatly increased market for all economic operators.

「国境のない」ヨーロッパは、すべての経営者にとって大きく拡大した市場を意味します。

2.Until very recently Texas was an unsettled frontier .

は少し前まで、テキサス州はまだ人家のない辺鄙な地域だった。

3.the frontier between the land of the Saxons and that of the Danes

サクソン人の土地と古代スカンジナビア人の土地の境界

4.There were very few border controls on the southwestern frontier .

南西国境に国境検問所はいくつもありません。

5.The frontier station was starved for food and water.

国境警備所では食料と水が必要です。