An outpost is a small group of buildings used for trading or military purposes, either in a distant part of your own country or in a foreign country.
...a remote mountain outpost, linked to the outside world by the poorest of roads.
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Synonyms: frontier, border, borderline, borderland More Synonyms of outpost
outpost in British English
(ˈaʊtˌpəʊst)
noun
1. military
a.
a position stationed at a distance from the area occupied by a major formation
b.
the troops assigned to such a position
2.
an outlying settlement or position
3.
a limit or frontier
outpost in American English
(ˈaʊtˌpoʊst)
noun
1. Military
a.
a small group stationed at a distance from the main force in order to prevent an enemy surprise attack
b.
the place or station occupied by such a group
c.
any military base away from the home country
2.
a settlement on a frontier or border
Examples of 'outpost' in a sentence
outpost
Most of the violence has targeted remote trading outposts and farming villages on the mainland.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Nor was he confined to foreign outposts.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
This is a military outpost that they are focusing on.
Christianity Today (2000)
Four volunteers could be sent to set up the first human outpost.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Yet this outpost of military power on foreign soil is a legacy of a now forgotten exercise in nation building.
The Times Literary Supplement (2009)
In recent years other countries which submitted claims to the ocean floors around remote imperial outposts have run into disputes with neighbouring nations.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Most students are based here, with smaller outposts nearby.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Now it has its first Vegas outpost.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Yet they were the men destined to hold the remotest outpost in the most northerly base in the whole of Helmand.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
While many are excited about the benefits oil could bring, others are concerned that this remote outpost could be changed irrevocably.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
A military outpost for centuries, the island is making up for lost tourism time.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
London was a seemingly remote outpost of what was then an organisation largely focused on the US.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It recently opened a restaurant at the new airport terminal in Dubai, its first outpost overseas.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
With the series at an end, its American producers have decided to establish a permanent outpost in this country.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
That has forced them to shrink their area slightly, abandoning one small outpost and blowing up two bridges used by insurgents to the dismay of local people.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
In one sense, the eye can be considered as a remote outpost of the brain, so interlinked are the two organs.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In other languages
outpost
British English: outpost NOUN
An outpost is a small group of buildings used for trading or military purposes, either in a distant part of your own country or in a foreign country.
...a remote mountain outpost, linked to the outside world by the poorest of roads.
American English: outpost
Brazilian Portuguese: posto avançado
Chinese: > 军事基地设在国内边远地区或国外的
European Spanish: puesto avanzado
French: avant-poste
German: Vorposten
Italian: avamposto
Japanese: 前哨地
Korean: 전초 기지
European Portuguese: posto avançado
Latin American Spanish: puesto avanzado
Chinese translation of 'outpost'
outpost
(ˈautpəust)
n(c)
(Mil) 前哨 (qiánshào)
(Comm) 边(邊)远(遠)分部 (biānyuǎn fēnbù)
(noun)
a remote mountain outpost
Synonyms
frontier
It wasn't difficult to cross the frontier.
border
Clifford is enjoying life north of the border.
borderline
borderland
Additional synonyms
in the sense of border
Definition
the dividing line between political or geographic regions