outpost
outpost
Definition
out·post (-pōst′)
noun
- Mil.
- a small group stationed at a distance from the main force in order to prevent an enemy surprise attack
- the place or station occupied by such a group
- any military base away from the home country
- a settlement on a frontier or border
outpost
Synonyms
outpost
n.
outpost
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- tyranny: America is not without peers, in trading with the outpost of tyranny.
- empire: These outposts of empire were of genuine strategic value to the British Empire.
- civilization: Even more amazingly, this tiny outpost of civilization in the middle of nowhere supports an arts center.
Converse of object
- fling: Cycling through the furthest flung outposts of the Sound of Now.
- attack: On patrol at 4 p.m. Boers attacked outposts a bit of a fight with the Boers eventually retiring.
- reach: The morale in this far reaching outpost of the empire was dismal.
- become: It had become a frontier outpost of the Ottoman Empire.
Adjective modifier
- far-flung: The location is switched from a provincial backwater of Imperial Russia to a far-flung outpost of the British Empire, Trinidad.
- furthest: Being one of the furthest outposts of East Asia I expected it to be fairly under-developed.
- northerly: To Scottish eyes, Kirkwall may seem a distant northerly outpost.
- colonial: From northwest Wales it's a colonial outpost of the English empire - governmental, stern, alien, nothing to do with them.
- remote: She was marooned in a remote outpost of life, doomed only to be a distant watcher.
Modifies a noun
- fort: The vast majority of these inscriptions are from the Wall, its forts or its hinterland and outpost forts.
- duty: Generally, we were out on outpost duty, the Boer being in the vicinity.
Noun used with modifier
- colonial: Then work begins on establishing Bush's permanent colonial outpost.
- enemy: They reached Lucknow, India, on the 15th November and the same day fought with the enemy outposts.
- border: He said the Iraqi soldiers shot at a border outpost, drawing retaliatory fire.
- trading: Tesco stores would definitely not consider Chiddingly shop as one of their trading outposts.
- island: Within the next two months a bleak island outpost will finally utilize the power of the Atlantic ocean on a commercial scale.
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