frontierism

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Synonyms: frontiers

Antonyms: frontiers

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|politics}} Support for a [[frontier]]; especially, the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that a [[settler]] [[colonial]] [[exceptionalism]], under the guise of American [[democracy]], was formed by [[appropriation]] of the rugged American frontier.

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