frontier
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country
the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day
Types & categories
- wild hypernym
Sense 2 noun
an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary
Types & categories
- boundary hypernym
- Triple Frontier instance hyponym
Sense 3 noun
an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development
he worked at the frontier of brain science
Types & categories
- discipline hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | wild |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | boundary |
| 2 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Triple Frontier |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | discipline |