English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
out- + post
Pronunciation[edit]
outpost (plural outposts)
- A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops.
- The outpost did not have enough ammunition to resist a determined assault.
- The body of troops manning such a post.
- Sgt. Smith fleeced most of the rest of the outpost of their earnings in their weekly game of craps.
- An outlying settlement.
- Beyond the border proper, there are three small outposts not officially under government protection.
- (chess) A square protected by a pawn that is in or near the enemy's stronghold.
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Translations[edit]
A military post
- Bengali: থানা (bn) (thana)
- Bulgarian: ава́нпо́ст m (avánpóst)
- Danish: forpost (da) c
- Dutch: voorpost (nl) m, buitenpost (nl) m
- Finnish: etuvartio, etuvartioasema (fi)
- French: avant-poste (fr) m, poste avancé (fr) m
- German: Vorposten (de) m
- Greek: προφυλακή (el) f (profylakí)
- Hebrew: מוצב חוץ m
- Irish: urphost m
- Italian: avamposto (it) m
- Macedonian: пре́тстража f (prétstraža), (please verify) а́ванпост m (ávanpost)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: utpost m
- Nynorsk: utpost m
- Polish: czata (pl) f, forpoczta (pl) f
- Portuguese: posto avançado m
- Romanian: avanpost (ro) n
- Russian: аванпо́ст (ru) m (avanpóst), форпо́ст (ru) m (forpóst), заста́ва (ru) f (zastáva), кордо́н (ru) m (kordón)
- Spanish: puesto (es) m, fortificación (es) m, presidio (es) m
- Turkish: ileri karakol (tr)
- Welsh: rhagorsaf f
- Yiddish: אַוואַנפּאָסט m (avanpost)
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A chess square
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- Polish: pole ochronione przez pion m
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