All 4 Uses of
frontier
in
The Chrysalids
- Whatever the cause, it persuaded him to Waknuk — then undeveloped, almost frontier country — with all his worldly goods in a train of six wagons, at the age of forty-five.†
Chpt 2
- Ours was no longer a frontier region.†
Chpt 2 *
- But as time went on and the frontier was pushed back there were more Fringes people trying to live on less country.†
Chpt 2
- What the Government did do, from its comfortable situation far, far to the east, was to express sympathy in encouraging phrases, and suggest the formation of a local militia: a suggestion which, as all able-bodied males had as a matter of course been members of a kind of unofficial militia since frontier days, was felt to amount to disregard of the situation.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(frontier as in: the frontier of brain science) the most recent understandings and achievements in a changing field