frontier
adjective
1. Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous.
- a frontier town
noun
1. a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country
- the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day
Definition categories: location, wild, wilderness
2. an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary
Definition categories: location, bound, boundary, bounds
3. an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development
- he worked at the frontier of brain science
Definition categories: thought, bailiwick, discipline, field, study, subject