Meaning

5 senses
  1. A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops.

    The outpost did not have enough ammunition to resist a determined assault.

    Vorposten

    аванпо́стavanpóst, форпо́стforpóst, заста́ваzastáva

    a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops

  2. The body of troops manning such a post.

    Sgt. Smith fleeced most of the rest of the outpost of their earnings in their weekly game of craps.

  3. A sentinel positioned outside.

  4. An outlying settlement.

    Beyond the border proper, there are three small outposts not officially under government protection.

    Außenposten

    a settlement on the frontier of civilization

  5. A square protected by a pawn that is in or near the enemy's stronghold.

Examples

19 sentences
  1. How about building more outposts?

    ruКак насчет построить больше аванпостов? — sharptoothed

  2. Ziri fled to a military outpost.

  3. Sami was in a remote mountain outpost.

  4. Flavio and his men evacuated the outpost.

  5. Flavio and his men began to explore the outpost.

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
A military post:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
A military post:
An outlying settlement:

Forms

plural: outposts
Singularoutpost
Pluraloutposts

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a settlement on the frontier of civilization:frontier settlement
  • a station in a remote or sparsely populated location:outstation

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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