Meaning of the word frontiersman in English

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frontiersman

US /frʌnˈtɪrz.mən/
UK /frʌnˈtɪrz.mən/

Noun

1.

a person who lives on the border between cultivated land (= land used to grow crops) and wild land, especially in the past in the U.S:

Example:
The book portrays him as a heroic frontiersman of the Wild West.
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