Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun outpost

3 senses of outpost

Sense 1
outstation, outpost -- (a station in a remote or sparsely populated location)
       => post, station -- (the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand; "a soldier manned the entrance post"; "a sentry station")

Sense 2
frontier settlement, outpost -- (a settlement on the frontier of civilization)
       => 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; "the American colony in Paris")

Sense 3
outpost -- (a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops)
       => military post, post -- (military installation at which a body of troops is stationed; "this military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby"; "there is an officer's club on the post")