outpostn.

Brit.

/ˈaʊtpəʊst/, U.S.

/ˈaʊtˌpoʊst/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: out- prefix, post n.³

Etymology: < out- prefix + post n.³

1. A detachment of soldiers situated at a distance from the main body of an army, esp. as a guard against surprise attack; the position occupied or manned by such a unit. Frequently in plural.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > military position > [noun] > outpost

outpost1696

Cossack post1845

1696 E. D'Auvergne Hist. Campagne Flanders, 1695 33 They had an out-post at a Mill without their Line near St. Denis, which hindered our approach.

1720 A. Hill Specimen from Gideon iii. 3 The Soldiers, fearful they might there prevail, Swift-quitting their Out-posts, had hasted all.

1757 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 478 The uncertain and difficult communication with the out-posts.

1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 33 Sometimes a serjeant at an out-post..sends an account of his having discovered on a certain spot, a parcel of spice trees.

1803 G. Lake in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 394 When we had encamped..our outposts were attacked by a body of the enemy.

1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 272 Officers, Soldiers, and Followers of the Camp, are not, on any account, to be suffered to pass the Out-Posts, unless they are on duty, or present a regular permit.

1888 P. H. Sheridan Personal Mem. I. 171 Skirmishes between outposts on this line were of frequent occurrence.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 571/1 At 3.30 the French attacked and drove in the outposts.

1961 G. F. Kennan Russia & West vi. 88 The forces therefore remained at their lonely outposts in the great northern forests.

1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army Gloss. 376 Soldiers on a continual round of duties or patrol in outposts like in Northern Ireland have to use the same bed on rotation.

2. Originally Canadian. A trading post set up in a remote place or near a frontier in order to further the commercial contacts of a larger, more established settlement.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun] > trading post

trading post1776

fort1784

outpost1802

post1835

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town, village, or collection of dwellings > [noun] > for trading purposes

post1789

outpost1802

residence1890

wood post1904

1802 in E. Coues New Light on Early Hist. Greater Northwest (1897) I. 204 [I] made up the assortment of goods for the outposts, equipped the summer men, clerks, etc.

1820 G. Simpson Jrnl. Occurr. in Athabasca Dept. (1938) 104 There is an Outpost from Fort Vermillion about to be established close to Colville house.

1913 I. Cowie Company of Adventurers 191 For instance, Egg Lake was an outpost of Fort Pelly, and Waterhen of Manitobah Post.

1956 H. S. M. Kemp Northern Trader 17 The red [thumbtacks] represent the Company's permanent, year-round establishments; the blue ones, the winter posts and outposts.

1970 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 Feb. 5/3 The post here [i.e. at Cambridge Bay] is what is called an Outpost where goods are landed to be drawn on by other posts that may run short.

a. In extended use: something regarded as an isolated or remote branch of something; a remote or isolated town or settlement; the outermost limit of something.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [noun] > remote place

outpost1813

1813 J. C. Eustace Tour through Italy I. i. 3 Saltzburg, a subalpine city,..may be considered..as forming one of the outposts of Italy.

1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) i. 9 A lower line of hills, which form as it were the outposts of the Sinaitic range itself.

1881 D. G. Rossetti Ballads & Sonnets 196 Shall my sense pierce love,—the last relay And ultimate outpost of eternity?

1944 F. Clune Red Heart 59 They came to the last outpost of civilisation, at Mount Abundance sheep station.

1991 ‘W. Trevor’ Two Lives (1992) i. 228 I later heard, the way one does in an outpost like Ombubu, that several years before he'd tricked into marriage the daughter of a well-to-do Italian family.

2000 Holiday & Leisure Spring 7/1 Cornwall is home to the Tate Gallery's outpost in pretty St. Ives.

b. spec. A remote territory of an empire, the furthest territory of an empire, esp. (more fully outpost of Empire) of the British Empire.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > furthest territory of an empire

outpost1848

1848 Examiner 21 Oct. 673/1 The origin of the Austrian and Prussian monarchies was the fact of their districts being considered the outposts of the German empire.

1896 Cent. Mag. Feb. 534/2 The outposts of his empire were established, and from one of them he could touch with his hand the enchanted East.

1912 R. Kipling Songs from Bks. 94 There he shall blaze a nation's ways with hatchet and with brand, Till on his last-won wilderness an Empire's outposts stand.

1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier ix. 173 In an ‘outpost of Empire’ like Burma the class-question appeared at first sight to have been shelved.

1988 Holiday Which? Jan. 29/2 This powerful last outpost of the Byzantine empire is now a silent ruined city.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as outpost duty, outpost guard, outpost station, etc.

ΚΠ

1776 Battle of Brooklyn ii. i. 19 We are the remains of the out post guard.

1854 F. I. Duberly Jrnl. 16 Sept. in Mrs Duberly's War (2007) 64 Started immediately on outpost-duty.

1870 De B. R. Keim Sheridan's Troopers 206 This simple means is also resorted to by the troops on outpost duty.

1903 Amer. Hist. Rev. 9 175 Like most cavalry officers, he saw more of hardy but innocuous outpost duty and less of hard fighting than he would have seen on foot.

1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 226 The blockhouse..was absorbed into our outpost-line.

1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 175 In Berlin and Hamburg..and on airfields and outpost stations, the R.A.F. has taken root.

1981 A. Sillitoe Second Chance 160 The line of dwellings called Harrison's Row made a sort of outpost bastion before the country began.

C2.

outpost camp n. Canadian a remote hunting or fishing camp.

ΚΠ

1963 D. Damas Igluligmiut Kinship & Local Groupings iv. 70 Among the eight cases of isolated siblings, two are alone..because of an employment situation at Ikpiakjuk, and three are involved in an outpost camp arrangement.

1999 Canad. Business (Electronic ed.) 14 May Two luxury outpost camps—one on a whale-watching beach, the other inland, providing handy access to the mountains.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

outpostv.

Brit.

/ˈaʊtpəʊst/, U.S.

/ˈaʊtˌpoʊst/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: outpost n.

Etymology: < outpost n. Compare slightly earlier outposted adj.

1. transitive. To send to an outpost; to place as an outpost.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > distance or farness > be far from [verb (transitive)] > put at or remove to a distance

farOE

fersec1000

far-casta1340

removec1384

proloynec1425

prolong1440

purloin1461

elong1477

enstrange1483

eloin1535

elongatec1540

distance1578

discoast1583

eloinate1642

outpost1864

distantiate1924

1864 D. Masson in Reader 13 Aug. 187/2 The thoughts that habitually come and go in the mind so privileged and outposted to meditate and to sing!

1959 Internat. Org. 13 558/2 The termination of the arrangement by which certain technical assistance program officers had been outposted, on an experimental basis, to Santiago and Mexico City.

1986 Dict. National Biogr. 1971–80 at Hurcomb, Cyril William He entered the Civil Service in the Post Office in 1906, and was briefly outposted before being assigned to the secretary's office.

1997 Observer 9 Feb. 9/4 We want to ‘out~post’ ambulances in places such as a motorway bridge.

2. transitive. To supply with or as with outposts.

ΚΠ

1910 ‘Q’ Lady Good-for-nothing ii. xi. 241 Another farm..outposted with cattle.

1947 Mil. Affairs 11 83 It had..been determined that the front was well outposted by enemy riflemen.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	outpost
释义	outpostn. Brit. /ˈaʊtpəʊst/, U.S. /ˈaʊtˌpoʊst/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: out- prefix, post n.³ Etymology: < out- prefix + post n.³ 1. A detachment of soldiers situated at a distance from the main body of an army, esp. as a guard against surprise attack; the position occupied or manned by such a unit. Frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > military position > [noun] > outpost outpost1696 Cossack post1845 1696 E. D'Auvergne Hist. Campagne Flanders, 1695 33 They had an out-post at a Mill without their Line near St. Denis, which hindered our approach. 1720 A. Hill Specimen from Gideon iii. 3 The Soldiers, fearful they might there prevail, Swift-quitting their Out-posts, had hasted all. 1757 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 478 The uncertain and difficult communication with the out-posts. 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 33 Sometimes a serjeant at an out-post..sends an account of his having discovered on a certain spot, a parcel of spice trees. 1803 G. Lake in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 394 When we had encamped..our outposts were attacked by a body of the enemy. 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 272 Officers, Soldiers, and Followers of the Camp, are not, on any account, to be suffered to pass the Out-Posts, unless they are on duty, or present a regular permit. 1888 P. H. Sheridan Personal Mem. I. 171 Skirmishes between outposts on this line were of frequent occurrence. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 571/1 At 3.30 the French attacked and drove in the outposts. 1961 G. F. Kennan Russia & West vi. 88 The forces therefore remained at their lonely outposts in the great northern forests. 1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army Gloss. 376 Soldiers on a continual round of duties or patrol in outposts like in Northern Ireland have to use the same bed on rotation. 2. Originally Canadian. A trading post set up in a remote place or near a frontier in order to further the commercial contacts of a larger, more established settlement. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun] > trading post trading post1776 fort1784 outpost1802 post1835 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town, village, or collection of dwellings > [noun] > for trading purposes post1789 outpost1802 residence1890 wood post1904 1802 in E. Coues New Light on Early Hist. Greater Northwest (1897) I. 204 [I] made up the assortment of goods for the outposts, equipped the summer men, clerks, etc. 1820 G. Simpson Jrnl. Occurr. in Athabasca Dept. (1938) 104 There is an Outpost from Fort Vermillion about to be established close to Colville house. 1913 I. Cowie Company of Adventurers 191 For instance, Egg Lake was an outpost of Fort Pelly, and Waterhen of Manitobah Post. 1956 H. S. M. Kemp Northern Trader 17 The red [thumbtacks] represent the Company's permanent, year-round establishments; the blue ones, the winter posts and outposts. 1970 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 Feb. 5/3 The post here [i.e. at Cambridge Bay] is what is called an Outpost where goods are landed to be drawn on by other posts that may run short. 3. a. In extended use: something regarded as an isolated or remote branch of something; a remote or isolated town or settlement; the outermost limit of something. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [noun] > remote place outpost1813 1813 J. C. Eustace Tour through Italy I. i. 3 Saltzburg, a subalpine city,..may be considered..as forming one of the outposts of Italy. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) i. 9 A lower line of hills, which form as it were the outposts of the Sinaitic range itself. 1881 D. G. Rossetti Ballads & Sonnets 196 Shall my sense pierce love,—the last relay And ultimate outpost of eternity? 1944 F. Clune Red Heart 59 They came to the last outpost of civilisation, at Mount Abundance sheep station. 1991 ‘W. Trevor’ Two Lives (1992) i. 228 I later heard, the way one does in an outpost like Ombubu, that several years before he'd tricked into marriage the daughter of a well-to-do Italian family. 2000 Holiday & Leisure Spring 7/1 Cornwall is home to the Tate Gallery's outpost in pretty St. Ives. b. spec. A remote territory of an empire, the furthest territory of an empire, esp. (more fully outpost of Empire) of the British Empire. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > furthest territory of an empire outpost1848 1848 Examiner 21 Oct. 673/1 The origin of the Austrian and Prussian monarchies was the fact of their districts being considered the outposts of the German empire. 1896 Cent. Mag. Feb. 534/2 The outposts of his empire were established, and from one of them he could touch with his hand the enchanted East. 1912 R. Kipling Songs from Bks. 94 There he shall blaze a nation's ways with hatchet and with brand, Till on his last-won wilderness an Empire's outposts stand. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier ix. 173 In an ‘outpost of Empire’ like Burma the class-question appeared at first sight to have been shelved. 1988 Holiday Which? Jan. 29/2 This powerful last outpost of the Byzantine empire is now a silent ruined city. Compounds C1. General attributive, as outpost duty, outpost guard, outpost station, etc. ΚΠ 1776 Battle of Brooklyn ii. i. 19 We are the remains of the out post guard. 1854 F. I. Duberly Jrnl. 16 Sept. in Mrs Duberly's War (2007) 64 Started immediately on outpost-duty. 1870 De B. R. Keim Sheridan's Troopers 206 This simple means is also resorted to by the troops on outpost duty. 1903 Amer. Hist. Rev. 9 175 Like most cavalry officers, he saw more of hardy but innocuous outpost duty and less of hard fighting than he would have seen on foot. 1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 226 The blockhouse..was absorbed into our outpost-line. 1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 175 In Berlin and Hamburg..and on airfields and outpost stations, the R.A.F. has taken root. 1981 A. Sillitoe Second Chance 160 The line of dwellings called Harrison's Row made a sort of outpost bastion before the country began. C2. outpost camp n. Canadian a remote hunting or fishing camp. ΚΠ 1963 D. Damas Igluligmiut Kinship & Local Groupings iv. 70 Among the eight cases of isolated siblings, two are alone..because of an employment situation at Ikpiakjuk, and three are involved in an outpost camp arrangement. 1999 Canad. Business (Electronic ed.) 14 May Two luxury outpost camps—one on a whale-watching beach, the other inland, providing handy access to the mountains. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). outpostv. Brit. /ˈaʊtpəʊst/, U.S. /ˈaʊtˌpoʊst/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: outpost n. Etymology: < outpost n. Compare slightly earlier outposted adj. 1. transitive. To send to an outpost; to place as an outpost. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > be far from [verb (transitive)] > put at or remove to a distance farOE fersec1000 far-casta1340 removec1384 proloynec1425 prolong1440 purloin1461 elong1477 enstrange1483 eloin1535 elongatec1540 distance1578 discoast1583 eloinate1642 outpost1864 distantiate1924 1864 D. Masson in Reader 13 Aug. 187/2 The thoughts that habitually come and go in the mind so privileged and outposted to meditate and to sing! 1959 Internat. Org. 13 558/2 The termination of the arrangement by which certain technical assistance program officers had been outposted, on an experimental basis, to Santiago and Mexico City. 1986 Dict. National Biogr. 1971–80 at Hurcomb, Cyril William He entered the Civil Service in the Post Office in 1906, and was briefly outposted before being assigned to the secretary's office. 1997 Observer 9 Feb. 9/4 We want to ‘out~post’ ambulances in places such as a motorway bridge. 2. transitive. To supply with or as with outposts. ΚΠ 1910 ‘Q’ Lady Good-for-nothing ii. xi. 241 Another farm..outposted with cattle. 1947 Mil. Affairs 11 83 It had..been determined that the front was well outposted by enemy riflemen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1696v.1864
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