Boarder vs Frontier - What's the difference?
boarder | frontier |
A pupil who lives at school during term time.
Someone who pays for meals and lodging in a house rather than a hotel.
(nautical) A sailor attacking an enemy ship by boarding her, or one repelling such attempts by an enemy.
Someone who uses a snowboard
That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.
* 1979 , Richard Elphic and Hermann Guilomee (editors), The shaping of South African Society, 1652 - 1820 , page 297:
(obsolete) An outwork of a fortification.
* Shakespeare
Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous.
As a noun boarder
is a pupil who lives at school during term time.As a proper noun frontier is
an unincorporated community in minnesota.boarder
English
Noun
(en noun)- The student body consisted primarily of boarders , except for a few children belonging to the school staff.
- When I left for college, my parents took on a boarder in my old room to help defray expenses.
- The captain shouted at the crew to grab arms and repel boarders .
- A group of boarders swept past us as we climbed the side of the ski run
Anagrams
* *frontier
English
Noun
(en noun)- Unlike a boundary, which evokes the image of a line on a map and demarcates spheres of political control, the frontier is an area where colonisation is taking place....no authority is recognised as legitimate by all parties or is able to excersise undisputed control over the area.
- Palisadoes, frontiers , parapets.
Adjective
(head)- a frontier town