Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun frontier_settlement

1 sense of frontier settlement

Sense 1
frontier settlement, outpost -- (a settlement on the frontier of civilization)
       => colony, settlement -- (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government; "the American colony in Paris")