noun (plural frontiersmen)
A man living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
More example sentences
- Did veteran Canadian frontiersmen know the words and gestures that led to successful surrender to Iroquois warriors?
- Whereas the frontiersman, cowboy, and soldier protect the values of a culture, the mobster exploits freedom.
- The idea of the frontier and 'the noble frontiersman' retain a strong, if largely subliminal, purchase on the imagination of a nation now overwhelmingly urban and increasingly cosmopolitan.
Definition of frontiersman in:
- The US English dictionary