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OUTPOST

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troopsplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("outpost" is a kind of...):

military post; post (military installation at which a body of troops is stationed)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A settlement on the frontier of civilizationplay

Synonyms:

frontier settlement; outpost

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("outpost" is a kind of...):

colony; settlement (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A station in a remote or sparsely populated locationplay

Synonyms:

outpost; outstation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("outpost" is a kind of...):

post; station (the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand)

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