Thesaurus results for OUTPOST

outpost

noun

as in village

a small place where people live that is far away from other towns or cities They lived in a remote outpost high in the mountains.

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as in barracks

a military facility that is in another country or that is far from a country's center of activity It took about a month for mail to reach the soldiers at the outpost.

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Recent Examples of outpost Longtime mainstays, like the local outposts of Fellow Barber and Malibu Farm, have decamped; the Di Fara Pizza outpost closed last year. —

Ian Volner, Curbed, 4 June 2026 But by the time the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum opened, in 1967, the place had become more than just a promotional outpost. —

Camille Borders, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026 Bodrum and Göcek have emerged as the country’s answer to the Mediterranean’s luxury capitals, complete with chic beach clubs, designer outposts, sophisticated marinas and an increasingly ambitious restaurant scene. —

Katia Damborsky, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 Israeli soldiers withdrew from the outpost in 2000. —

Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 1 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for outpost

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That moniker comes from a violent 1967 peasant uprising against oppressive landlords in Naxalbari, a village in the shadow of the Himalayan foothills in northeast India.

— Dhruv Tikekar, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
Israel’s military issued evacuation warnings for more than a dozen villages in southern Lebanon, a day after Lebanese and Israeli military officials held their first direct talks in decades at the Pentagon.

— Ahmad Mantash, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026