The Only Use of
frontier
in
The Great Gatsby
- I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby's bedroom, a gray, florid man with a hard, empty face — the pioneer debauchee, who during one phase of American life brought back to the Eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon.
p. 100.7frontier = a wilderness area starting to be settled
Definitions:
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(1)
(frontier as in: the frontier of Tibet) an international boundary or a wilderness at the edge of a settled area
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(2)
(frontier as in: the frontier of brain science) the most recent understandings and achievements in a changing field
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, frontier can refer to a type of log cabin.