borderer

English

Etymology

border +‎ -er

Noun

borderer (plural borderers)

A person who resides near a border.
- 1904, The Border Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume 9, page 208:
  The Borderers on the English side rieved, harried, and plundered each other with as much keenness and audacity as did the Scots on the other side.
A soldier of a border regiment in the British Army (Border Regiment, South Wales Borderers, King's Own Scottish Borderers).

Synonyms

frontiersman

Translations

person who resides near a border

Galician: raioto m, arraiano m
Greek: ακρίτας (el) m (akrítas)
Polish: kresowiec m
Portuguese: raiano (pt) m
Serbo-Croatian: graničar (sh) m
Slovak: hraničiar m
Swedish: gränsbo (sv) c

Anagrams

reborder

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