'outpost' definitions:
Definition of 'outpost'
(from WordNet)
noun
A station in a remote or sparsely populated location [syn: outstation, outpost]
noun
A settlement on the frontier of civilization [syn: frontier settlement, outpost]
noun
A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops
Synonyms of 'outpost'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advance guard,
- airhead,
- alentours,
- ambience,
- ambit,
- antipodes,
- armed guard,
- avant-garde,
- back country,
- backwoods,
- bamboo curtain,
- bank guard,
- battle line,
- beachhead,
- Berlin wall,
- boondock,
- boondocks,
- border,
- border ground,
- borderland,
- borderlands,
- bridgehead,
- brush,
- bush country,
- bushveld,
- China,
- circle,
- circuit,
- circumambiencies,
- circumjacencies,
- circumstances,
- coast guard,
- compass,
- context,
- cordon,
- cordon sanitaire,
- Darkest Africa,
- entourage,
- environing circumstances,
- environment,
- environs,
- farthest outpost,
- first line,
- forefront,
- forests,
- front,
- front line,
- front rank,
- front-runner,
- frontier,
- frontier post,
- garrison,
- gestalt,
- goalie,
- goalkeeper,
- goaltender,
- God knows where,
- godforsaken place,
- Greenland,
- guard,
- guarder,
- guardsman,
- habitat,
- hinterland,
- inlying picket,
- iron curtain,
- jailer,
- jumping-off place,
- line,
- march,
- marches,
- marchland,
- milieu,
- neighborhood,
- North Pole,
- nowhere,
- outback,
- Outer Mongolia,
- outer space,
- outguard,
- outposts,
- outskirts,
- Pago Pago,
- perimeter,
- periphery,
- picket,
- Pillars of Hercules,
- pioneer,
- point,
- pole,
- precincts,
- precursor,
- purlieus,
- railhead,
- rear guard,
- scout,
- security guard,
- Siberia,
- situation,
- South Pole,
- spearhead,
- suburbs,
- surroundings,
- the boondocks,
- the bush,
- the Great Divide,
- the moon,
- the South Seas,
- the sticks,
- the tullies,
- three-mile limit,
- Thule,
- Tierra del Fuego,
- timbers,
- Timbuktu,
- total environment,
- train guard,
- twelve-mile limit,
- Ultima Thule,
- uninhabited region,
- up-country,
- van,
- vanguard,
- vicinage,
- vicinity,
- virgin land,
- virgin territory,
- warder,
- wasteland,
- wild West,
- wilderness,
- wilds,
- woodlands,
- woods,
- Yukon