frontier town
Border region village
A frontier town is a settlement at the edge of explored or developed territory, typically small, rough, and lacking established institutions.
The term evokes the American West—saloons, dusty streets, lawlessness: The railroad turned the frontier town into a proper city.
Figuratively, any place that feels undeveloped or ungoverned: The early internet was a frontier town.
- wild westUnregulated, lawless environment
- saloonDrinking establishment, often frontier
- watering holePlace for drinks
- trading postRemote commerce station
- boomtownRapidly growing community
outpost · mining camp · borderland · general store · settlement · sheriff · outlaw · stagecoach · cowboy · hinterland · blacksmith shop · log cabin · wagon trail · periphery · homestead · wilderness · bordello · boundary
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- Westernscowboys, western, outlaws, sheriffs, western novels
- Wild Westcowboy, howdy, sheriff, giddyup, lawmen
- Colonial AmericaGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence
- frontierpioneer, pioneers, settlers, settler, homesteaders
- historic placesancient city, historic district, historic quarter, Constantinople, walled city
frontier townmetropolis
Large important city
ancient city · capital city · major city · historic city · urban center
frontier towncapital
Wealth used for investment
seat of government · seat of power · cultural center · coastal metropolis · trading center