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BACKWOODSMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does backwoodsman mean? 

BACKWOODSMAN (noun)
  The noun BACKWOODSMAN has 1 sense:

1. a man who lives on the frontierplay

  Familiarity information: BACKWOODSMAN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BACKWOODSMAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who lives on the frontier

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

backwoodsman; frontiersman; mountain man

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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