frontierism
Support for a frontierSupport 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.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)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.
Origin
From frontier + -ism.From frontier + -ism.
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable