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frontierism

noun

Etymology

From frontier + -ism.

  1. derived from fronter
  2. inherited from frounter
  3. suffixed as frontierism — “frontier + ism”

Definitions

  1. Support for a frontier

    Support for a frontier; especially, the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that a settler colonial exceptionalism, under the guise of American democracy, was formed by appropriation of the rugged American frontier.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA