Synonyms of outposts

outposts

noun

plural of outpost

1

as in villages

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.

Related Words

• villages
• settlements
• hamlets
• camps
• habitations
• territories
• diasporas
• exclaves
• plantations
• posts
• colonies
• possessions
• vills
• protectorates
• bourgs
• mandates
• dependencies
• whistle-stops
• townlets
• cow towns
• Podunks

2

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.

Related Words

• barracks
• citadels
• camps
• garrisons
• forts
• bases
• fortresses
• bunkers
• stations
• fortifications
• bastions
• installations
• headquarters
• strongholds
• posts
• cantonments
• redoubts
• centers
• blockhouses
• leaguers
• fronts
• airbases
• dugouts
• bridgeheads
• laagers
• footholds
• beachheads
• emplacements
• battlefronts
• garrison houses
• staging areas
• holds
• fields
• footings
• staging grounds
• toeholds

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of outposts

Citizens is closing at least 100 of its supermarket outposts, replacing about half with standalone, full-service branches. — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 24 July 2026

In a statement after the Tell incident, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to accelerate the establishment of more settlement outposts or farms in the area and the legalization of existing ones. — Abeer Salman, CNN Money, 24 July 2026

Arrakis currently has five customers and plans to triple its headcount from roughly 15, opening outposts in New York and the Middle East. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 22 July 2026

In 1961 India adopted the Forward Policy, which established a series of military outposts along the contested border, amid ongoing clashes. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 July 2026

Among the galleries operating outposts there are Almine Rech, Gagosian, Gladstone, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, Sprüth Magers, Skarstedt, and White Cube. — News Desk, Artforum, 20 July 2026

Church Landing on the hilltop is the main lodge, with spa and restaurants on site, while Chase House, Palmer Inn, and Bay Point outposts pepper the shoreline with top-notch service. — Annie Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2026

Along these routes, the bulldozers piled up mounds to enclose fortified compounds, military outposts and detention facilities where Palestinians were interrogated and tortured. — Literary Hub, 16 July 2026

Among those that have closed in LA include Blum, LA Louver, and the Box, while Tanya Bonakdar and Marian Goodman Gallery have closed their LA outposts. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 16 July 2026