frontiersmen

noun

plural of frontiersman
as in pioneers
a person who settles in a new region the frontiersmen were willing to brave harsh living conditions in order to achieve a better life

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Recent Examples of frontiersmen Summer 2026 will be full of vampires, dragons, frontiersmen, superheroes and President Barack Obama. — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 1 June 2026
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  1. pioneers
  2. settlers
  3. colonists
Noun
  • The festival also gave a nod to some of the industry’s women pioneers, such as Bikini Kill and Garbage.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Translated, Huang’s immense fortune will eventually pale by comparison to those that will follow from entrepreneurs building on his and other AI pioneers’ broad shoulders.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of pioneers
Noun
  • More than eleven hundred Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed either directly by settlers or by the Israeli security forces.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Captured in the 1967 Middle East war, the West Bank is home to 3 million Palestinians and 500,000 Israeli settlers.
    — F. Brinley Bruton, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of settlers
Noun
  • In his telling, the Lenape agreed to sell Dutch colonists only as much land on Manhattan as could be covered by a man’s breeches.
    — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026
  • What happened to the colonists remains unknown, but archaeological finds—including otherwise anachronistic English artifacts on Hatteras Island—give some support to White’s theory that at least some of the colonists relocated willingly.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of colonists

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