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Frontier vs Visionary - What's the difference?

frontier | visionary |

As a proper noun frontier

is an unincorporated community in minnesota.

As an adjective visionary is

having vision or foresight.

As a noun visionary is

someone who has visions; a seer.

frontier

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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:
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) An outwork of a fortification.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Palisadoes, frontiers , parapets.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous.
    • a frontier town

    visionary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having vision or foresight
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Or lull to rest the visionary maid.
  • imaginary or illusory
  • prophetic or revelatory
  • * Thomson
    • The visionary hour / When musing midnight reigns.
  • idealistic or utopian
    • a visionary scheme or project
    (Jonathan Swift)

    Noun

    (visionaries)
  • someone who has visions; a seer
  • an impractical dreamer
  • someone who has positive ideas about the future