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    BACKWOODSMAN

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A man who lives on the frontierplay

    Synonyms:

    backwoodsman; frontiersman; mountain man

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    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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