FRONTIER SETTLEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frontier settlement mean? 

• FRONTIER SETTLEMENT (noun)
  The noun FRONTIER SETTLEMENT has 1 sense:

1. a settlement on the frontier of civilization

  Familiarity information: FRONTIER SETTLEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRONTIER SETTLEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A settlement on the frontier of civilization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

frontier settlement; outpost

Hypernyms ("frontier settlement" is a kind of...):

colony; settlement (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government)