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frontiersman

/fruhn-teerz-muhn, fron- or, especially British, fruhn-teerz-/US // frʌnˈtɪərz mən, frɒn- or, especially British, ˈfrʌn tɪərz- //UK // (ˈfrʌntɪəzmən, frʌnˈtɪəz-) //

边疆人,外地人,边民,边境人

Related Words

mountaineer登山家,登山者,爬山者,攀登者backwoodsman落伍者,乡下人,乡巴佬,乡绅

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural fron·tiers·men.

    • : a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inmountain man
Synonyms
backwoodsman落伍者,乡下人,乡巴佬,乡绅hinterlander腹地人,腹地的人,内陆人,腹地者mountaineer登山家,登山者,爬山者,攀登者ridge runner山脊跑者,山脊跑马者,岭南跑者,岭南人

Examples

  • Now Wang is enjoying a third act, this time as a new-media frontiersman.

  • In their company Jack Kilmeny was frankly a Western frontiersman.

  • The new sentry's zeal, joined with an ex-frontiersman's aim, was fatal.

  • Jim Beckwourth was our guide—a life-long frontiersman, an old man “beated and chopped with tanned antiquity.”

  • For the stratum of frontiersman and barbarian—not to say savage—lies just below the surface in us all, and a scratch exposes it.

  • Wayne was the son of a Pennsylvania frontiersman and came honestly by his aptitude for Indian fighting.

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