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

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

The Israeli government also uses military outposts as a first step to establish a physical, civilian presence on the ground, which is then gradually expanded into civilian communities and settlements. — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 20 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

Over the past four years, Yehuda Shaul, a co-founder of Breaking the Silence, told me, there has been a dramatic increase in isolated settler outposts, established illegally in Palestinian areas. — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026

These experiences inspired the co-founders to open the first Sloomoo Institute in New York City in 2019, followed by locations in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles, along with miniMOO outposts in Philadelphia and Boston. — Claire Harutunian, Charlotte Observer, 13 July 2026

The goal with two-way deals is for development, which means a player on a two-way deal has to be open to spending some of his time during the season in outposts such as South Dakota and Iowa. — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026

The bunkers located in the outposts served as a refuge from Iran’s rockets. — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026