borderer

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who lives near the border of a country or district, especially that between England and Scotland.
    — 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.
  2. A soldier of a border regiment in the British Army (Border Regiment, South Wales Borderers, King's Own Scottish Borderers).

词形变化

borderers plural

词汇关系

近义词
frontiersman

词源

Etymology tree
Old French bordeurebor.
Middle English bordure
English border
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English borderer
From border + -er.
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