outpost

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: out=post
• COUNT in NET: 4 in 4 verses (in OT : 4 in 4 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

outpost, n. 

 A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

outpost, n.
1 a detachment set at a distance from the main body of an army, esp. to prevent surprise.
2 a distant branch or settlement.
3 the furthest territory of an (esp. the British) empire.

THESAURUS

outpost

Berlin wall, China, Darkest Africa, God knows where, Greenland, North Pole, Outer Mongolia, Pago Pago, Pillars of Hercules, Siberia, South Pole, Thule, Tierra del Fuego, Timbuktu, Ultima Thule, Yukon, advance guard, airhead, alentours, ambience, ambit, antipodes, armed guard, avant-garde, back country, backwoods, bamboo curtain, bank guard, battle line, beachhead, boondock, boondocks, border, border ground, borderland, borderlands, bridgehead, brush, bush country, bushveld, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, coast guard, compass, context, cordon, cordon sanitaire, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, farthest outpost, first line, forefront, forests, front, front line, front rank, front-runner, frontier, frontier post, garrison, gestalt, goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, godforsaken place, guard, guarder, guardsman, habitat, hinterland, inlying picket, iron curtain, jailer, jumping-off place, line, march, marches, marchland, milieu, neighborhood, nowhere, outback, outer space, outguard, outposts, outskirts, perimeter, periphery, picket, pioneer, point, pole, precincts, precursor, purlieus, railhead, rear guard, scout, security guard, situation, spearhead, suburbs, surroundings, the Great Divide, the South Seas, the boondocks, the bush, the moon, the sticks, the tullies, three-mile limit, timbers, total environment, train guard, twelve-mile limit, uninhabited region, up-country, van, vanguard, vicinage, vicinity, virgin land, virgin territory, warder, wasteland, wild West, wilderness, wilds, woodlands, woods

ROGET THESAURUS

outpost

Distance

N distance, space, remoteness, farness, far- cry to, longinquity, elongation, offing, background, remote region, removedness, parallax, reach, span, stride, outpost, outskirt, horizon, aphelion, foreign parts, ultima Thule, ne plus ultra, antipodes, long range, giant's stride, dispersion, length, cosmic distance, light-years, distant, far off, far away, remote, telescopic, distal, wide of, stretching to, yon, yonder, ulterior, transmarine, transpontine, transatlantic, transalpine, tramontane, ultramontane, ultramundane, hyperborean, antipodean, inaccessible, out of the way, unapproached, unapproachable, incontiguous, far off, far away, afar, afar off, off, away, a long way off, a great way off, a good way off, wide away, aloof, wide of, clear of, out of the way, out of reach, abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond, outre mer, over the border, far and wide, over the hills and far away, from pole to pole, to the uttermost parts, to the ends of the earth, out of hearing, nobody knows where, a perte de vue, out of the sphere of, wide of the mark, a far cry to, apart, asunder, wide apart, wide asunder, longo intervallo, at arm's length, distance lends enchantment, it's a long long way to Tipperary, out of sight, out of mind.

Circumjacence

N circumjacence, circumambience, environment, encompassment, atmosphere, medium, surroundings, outpost, border, girdle, outskirts, boulebards, suburbs, purlieus, precincts, faubourgs, environs, entourage, banlieue, neighborhood, vicinage, vicinity, circumjacent, circumambient, circumfluent, ambient, surrounding, circumferential, suburban, around, about, without, on every side, on all sides, right and left, all round, round about.

Front

N front, fore, forepart, foreground, face, disk, disc, frontage, facade, proscenium, facia, frontispiece, anteriority, obverse (of a medal or coin), fore rank, front rank, van, vanguard, advanced guard, outpost, first line, scout, brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz, countenance, mut, rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore, jib, pioneer, metoposcopy, fore, anterior, front, frontal, before, in front, in the van, in advance, ahead, right ahead, forehead, foremost, in the foreground, in the lee of, before one's face, before one's eyes, face to face, vis-a-vis, front a front, formosa muta commendatio est, frons est animi janua, Human face divine, imago animi vultus est indices oculi, sea of upturned faces.