Marginalize vs Frontier - What's the difference?
marginalize | frontier |
To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people,) to the margins or to a lower limit
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 verb marginalize
is to relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people,) to the margins or to a lower limit.As a proper noun frontier is
an unincorporated community in minnesota.marginalize
English
Alternative forms
* marginalise (mostly British)Verb
(en-verb)Synonyms
*invisibilizefrontier
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