frontier town

collocation in English

meaningsoffrontierandtown

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frontier
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfrʌn.tɪər/us
/frʌnˈtɪr/
a border between ...
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town
noun
uk
/taʊn/us
/taʊn/
a place where people live and work, containing many houses, shops, places of work, places of entertainment, etc., and usually larger than a village but smaller than ...
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(Definition offrontierandtownfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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She identifies the city as one which had simultaneously a 'capital' and a 'frontiertown' status.
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He practiced medicine and ran a drug store in thefrontiertown.
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These mines developed into a trading post which became afrontiertown.
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One level of its expansion pack, however, is set in a westernfrontiertown.
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Daggerford is fairly quiet for afrontiertown.
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He sensed, however, the excitement of afrontiertown.
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Sligo town now started a new phase as a colonialfrontiertown, surrounded by a largely hostile countryside.
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Tjaru, being afrontiertownin an inhospitable desert region, was a place of banishment for criminals.
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It was to become the typicalfrontiertownwith a hotel, post office, general store and saloons.
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He promises to find 100 marriageable ladies willing to come to thefrontiertown(population 152) and stay for a full year.
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Gundagai was still considered a "frontiertown" in 1852.
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It originally started out as a weekly but within a year's time, it became the daily newspaper for thefrontiertown.
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It involved a bitter rivalry between an oldfrontiertownand an upstart town that was built on a swamp.
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Hamilton was once a bustlingfrontiertownthat contained many inns and several working breweries.
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We love the idea of a wildfrontiertown-type thing happening, but we wonder how long that can carry on inside the dome?
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Arriving with his little stock of leather and tools, he began a small shoe store and quickly found success in what was then a boomingfrontiertown.
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It is a population center for the western area, afrontiertownwith about 64,000 people from various ethnic backgrounds.
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The district, like manyfrontiertownred-light districts, gets its name from its proximity to wharves in the city.
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The attendance nearly doubled and a smallfrontiertownwas erected to entertain visitors as they waited for their cave tour.
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And it was always in a kind offrontiertowna place where there was one law, and it was one man, who was single-minded and bad.
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