Dictionary Definition
outpost
Noun
1 a station in a remote or sparsely populated
location [syn: outstation]
2 a settlement on the frontier of civilization
[syn: frontier
settlement]
3 a military post stationed at a distance from
the main body of troops
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- 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.
- The troops themselves, so stationed.
- Sgt. Smith fleeced most of the rest of the outpost of their earnings in their weekly game of craps.
- An outlying
settlement.
- Beyond the border proper, there are three small outposts not officially under government protection.
Translations
A military post
- Finnish: etuvartio, etuvartioasema
The troops themselves
- Finnish: etuvartio
An outlying settlement
Extensive Definition
Outpost or The Outpost may refer to:
- Outpost (chess), a position in the game chess
- Outpost (2008 film), a 2008 horror film
- Outpost (board game), from TimJim games
- Outpost (computer game), a Sierra On-Line video game
- Outpost (1981 computer game), an arcade game
- The Outpost (novel), by Bolesław Prus
- The Outpost (Mike Resnick novel), a 2001 science fiction novel
- Outpost Firewall Pro, a software package
Outpost may also be:
- Outpost, a rumoured Neil Marshall film
- Outpost.com, a name formerly used by Fry's Electronics
- The Outpost, another name for the 1995 film The Hills Have Eyes III
- The Outpost, a fictional place in the role playing game Neuroshima
- Outpost Records, a former Geffen Records imprint
outpost in Russian: Форпост
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Berlin wall, China, Darkest Africa, God knows
where, Greenland,
North Pole, Outer Mongolia, Pago Pago, Pillars of Hercules,
Siberia, South Pole,
Thule, Tierra del Fuego,
Timbuktu, Ultima Thule,
Yukon, advance guard,
airhead, alentours, ambience, ambit, antipodes, armed guard,
avant-garde, back country, backwoods, bamboo curtain,
bank guard, battle line, beachhead, boondock, boondocks, border, border ground, borderland, borderlands, bridgehead, brush, bush country, bushveld, circle, circuit, circumambiencies,
circumjacencies,
circumstances,
coast guard, compass,
context, cordon, cordon sanitaire,
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, godforsaken
place, guard, guarder, guardsman, habitat, hinterland, inlying picket,
iron curtain, jailer,
jumping-off place, line,
march, marches, marchland, milieu, neighborhood, nowhere, outback, outer space, outguard, outposts, outskirts, perimeter, periphery, picket, pioneer, point, pole, precincts, precursor, purlieus, railhead, rear guard, scout, security guard, situation, spearhead, suburbs, surroundings, the Great
Divide, the South Seas, the boondocks, the bush, the moon, the
sticks, the tullies, three-mile limit, timbers, total environment,
train guard, twelve-mile limit, uninhabited region, up-country,
van, vanguard, vicinage, vicinity, virgin land, virgin
territory, warder,
wasteland, wild West,
wilderness, wilds, woodlands, woods