frontier settlement

1. 1.

   a settlement on the frontier of civilization

   Synonymsoutpost

   Broadercolony

Questions about frontier settlement

What does frontier settlement mean?

frontier settlement means "a settlement on the frontier of civilization".

What is another word for frontier settlement?

Close synonyms include outpost. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is frontier settlement a common word?

frontier settlement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.