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BACKWOODSMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man who lives on the frontier
Synonyms:
backwoodsman; frontiersman; mountain man
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("backwoodsman" is a kind of...):
pioneer (one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory)
Instance hyponyms:
Boone; Daniel Boone (an American pioneer and guide and explorer (1734-1820))
Carson; Christopher Carson; Kit Carson (United States frontiersman who guided Fremont's expeditions in the 1840s and served as a Union general in the American Civil War (1809-1868))
Crockett; David Crockett; Davy Crockett (United States frontiersman and Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836))
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