outpost : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: outpost	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for outpost
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outpost n a station in a remote or sparsely populated location [syn: outstation, outpost] a settlement on the frontier of civilization Synonym(s): frontier settlement, outpost a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Outpost \Out"post`\, n. (Mil.) (a) 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. (b) The troops placed at such a station.