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 Back in 2010, Kengo Kuma beat out several other firms with its winning design for the V&A Museum’s new outpost in Dundee, Scotland. —

News Desk, Artforum, 8 Apr. 2026 The rural roadside outpost disappeared in the late 1970s to clear the way for the construction of Interstate 75 ramps in West Broward. —

Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026 Think outposts, scientific centers, maybe even launch pads that can serve as a cosmic layover for astronauts headed to Mars someday. —

Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2026 That location’s success kicked off a string of openings, with a nearly 8,600-square-foot Osaka outpost on Daimaru Umeda Department Store’s 13th floor, which opened in 2022, followed by a Kyoto location on the rooftop of the Takashimaya Kyoto shopping center in 2023. —

Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for outpost

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These deep-set oases, locally called wadis, once stretched for miles across the desert, remembers Issa Ousmane Tcharaba, the chief of Barkadroussou, a cluster of 14 villages that depend on a lush oasis surrounding a striking blue lake.

— Julie Bourdin, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026
Ports of call can be surprisingly small, resulting in anchorings well offshore that mean guests take a small boat (called a tender) to port—which allows the relatively small vessel to reach areas most cruise ships can't, like quaint South of France villages and idyllic Caribbean ports.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026