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outpost

noun

Definition of outpost

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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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 The outpost may resemble something of a rudimentary city on the moon. — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 1 July 2026 Cultivate by Forbidden Root This is the second outpost of Forbidden Root, Chicago’s first botanical brewery. — Midwest Living, 1 July 2026 Scammers from at least 13 of these outposts used Starlink IP addresses to get online between early March and the end of May, an AP analysis of device and satellite data from International Justice Mission shows. — ABC News, 30 June 2026 These outposts were intended to be manned by British seamen armed with antiaircraft weaponry. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for outpost

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Noun

The former was a concentration area for 200,000 refugees expelled from 247 localities, villages and towns and the area’s original 80,000 inhabitants; and the latter a frontier zone designed to incarcerate them.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
Included in her village is Kai, who will be soon be a freshman at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, two counties away.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026

Definition of village

Noun

But the project has remained the topic of litigation and has already cost LAWA hundreds of millions in claim settlements.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
While preparing for a trip, he is rendered unconscious using knockout gas and awakes to find himself inside a perfect recreation of his own home, but this one is located in a mysterious settlement known as The Village.

— William Worrall, Space.com, 15 July 2026

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One of the oldest citadels in the Middle East, Jerash has seen an unbroken chain of human occupation since the Bronze Age.

— Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2026
Paton, 52, was in Peru with his wife to hike the Inca Trail, a popular route that ends at Machu Picchu, a citadel built by the Incas in the 15th century.

— Sam Peters, CNN Money, 22 May 2026

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The house is at the Windsor Road-edge of the historic Bray Studios, tucked between the River Thames and a section of the A308 motorway, in the hamlet of Water Oakley.

— Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2026
All the more so for the fact that there isn’t a settlement or a hamlet, let alone a village called Shippea Hill at all.

— Rob Crossan, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2026

Definition of hamlet

Noun

The defending champions made Kansas City their base camp for the tournament as the team began its quest to become back to back champions for the first time since Brazil in 1958 and 1962.

— PJ Green July 13, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
All of the indications are that this has been an unusually happy England camp so far.

— Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 14 July 2026

Definition of camp

Noun

In the 15th century, the Incas established an important military garrison and administrative center here.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 July 2026
Because these positions are often held by relatively small Ukrainian garrisons due to the challenges of resupply, Russian forces that reach the town in sufficient numbers are likely to capture it.

— Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026

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