outpost
/ˈaʊtˌpoʊst/noun2 syllables
Outpost means: a station in a remote or sparsely populated location.
Synonyms for outpost2
noun, as in a station in a remote or sparsely populated location
outstation
noun, as in a settlement on the frontier of civilization
frontier settlement
What does outpost mean?3
noun
1
a station in a remote or sparsely populated location
2
a settlement on the frontier of civilization
3
a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Outpost in a sentence
- Ziri was sent to an old military outpost in the middle of nowhere.Amastan
- Flavio and his men began to explore the outpost.Amastan
- Cuba is the nearest outpost of Soviet communism.shekitten
- A barrage of rockets and mortars rained down on the Moroccan outpost.Amastan
- In a lawless outpost deep within the desert, everybody wore football shoulder pads and mohawks.papabear
- The soldiers in the outposts are continually on the look-out, ready to push back enemy attacks.qdii
- Sami was in a remote mountain outpost.OsoHombre
- Ziri fled to a military outpost.Amastan
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of outpost
as a noun
- plural
- outposts