Frontier vs Borders - What's the difference?
frontier | borders |
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.
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of border.
As a proper noun frontier
is an unincorporated community in minnesota.As a noun borders is
.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
borders
English
Verb
(head)- Spain borders Portugal and France.