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 Anderson & Sheppard’s shop-in-store at N.Y.C.’s Bergdorf Goodman—the first outpost beyond its London flagship— opened in December with, among other things, a sharp wool-and-cashmere jacket in a delightful shade of teal. —

Aleks Cvetkovic, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2025 Space stations and planetary outposts must be designed to last, their components recycled and repurposed. —

Rick Tumlinson, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025 The commercial galleries Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, and Jeffrey Deitch, each of whom has LA outposts, also contributed. —

Tessa Solomon For Artnews, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2025 In 1740, when Boston was a colonial outpost of 16,500 people, an extravagantly wealthy merchant named Peter Faneuil offered his city a gift. —

Michael Snyder, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for outpost

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Noun

It’s set in a Norwegian village under German occupation during the Second World War.

— The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025
In 2018, developer Rick Caruso opened the 125,000-square-foot Palisades Village shopping center in the heart of town, which put a new, decidedly upscale spin for anyone looking for a stroll through the village.

— Peter Kiefer, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2025