All 3 Uses of
frontier
in
Gone with the Wind
- The Yankees are recruiting men for frontier service to fight the Indians, recruiting them from among Confederate prisoners.†
Chpt 2.16
- The town was roaring—wide open like a frontier village, making no effort to cover its vices and sins.†
Chpt 4.37 *
- Yankee families of wealth sent young sons to the South to pioneer on the new frontier, and Yankee officers after their discharge took up permanent residence in the town they had fought so hard to capture.†
Chpt 5.49
Definition:
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(frontier as in: the frontier of brain science) the most recent understandings and achievements in a changing field