Frontier vs Frostier - What's the difference?
frontier | frostier |
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.
(frosty)
Cold, chilly.
Having frost on it.
(figuratively) Having an aloof or inhospitable manner.
As a proper noun frontier
is an unincorporated community in minnesota.As an adjective frostier is
(frosty).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
frostier
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
*frosty
English
Adjective
(er)- The air was frosty ; I could see my breath and walked quickly with my hands in my pockets.
- I'd like a frosty milkshake.
- The frosty pumpkin is the sign of the end of the growing season, soon the greenery will wither and harvest end for the year.
- After the divorce, she was civil but frosty to her ex.