outpost
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- noun
- /ˈaʊtˌpoʊst/
- The soldiers were stationed at a remote outpost high in the mountains to monitor enemy movements.
- a military outpost
- a remote outpost
- serve as an outpost
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- The Whites also saw Ukraine is not a a state, but rather as a an outpost from which to rebuild this the Russian Empire.
- And in fact, the moon makes so much more sense to establish an outpost there because that that is a far more efficient location for launching like intrasolar missions.
- We have to go down to the outpost to rent our cowboy boots, cowgirl boots.
- that we could take to this one OP, this outpost.
Examples
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Our current location is a military outpost in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
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In 1925, my father moved to an isolated outpost in central Utah.
Academic text (2001) -
This place, this land - your home - is the last outpost of freedom, of everything you hold dear.
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the US had a tiny outpost in global health research when we started.
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His team picked up supplies at the outpost we're at now just a few hours ago.
Fiction book (1993) -
His first move was to build a new outpost, Fort Gadsden.
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I didn't have anywhere else to go, so I stayed with the girls at the outpost.
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I grew up in the northernmost outpost of the Caribbean -- New Orleans, Louisiana.
Academic text (2001) -
Within a few years, they had established a thriving outpost on the westernmost edge of Christendom.
Academic text (1998) -
At the time, Deerfield was the northwestern most outpost of New England, deep in the heart of the former Pokum Tuk Nation.
Synonyms
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A small station far from towns used for work or official tasks
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A place the Romans built for soldiers or to run the area
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A small community at the edge of known land where pioneers live
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Surface Forms
Morphology
outpost = post (semi-transparent) = out + post
The prefix 'out-' suggests a location away from the main area, but the specific meaning of a remote settlement is not fully transparent.
Etymology
The word outpost is simply out + post, where out means 'away' and post means 'a station or place for guards'. So an outpost is a small station set away from the main base, which is why it is used for remote settlements, military watch points, or research stations.