outpost

Other forms of outpost

plural

outposts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about outpost

What does outpost mean?

outpost means "a station in a remote or sparsely populated location". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in outpost?

outpost has 2 syllables: out-post. The stress falls on "out". In IPA it is /ˈaʊtˌpoʊst/.

What is another word for outpost?

Close synonyms include outstation, frontier settlement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is outpost a common word?

outpost is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with outpost?

7 words rhyme with outpost. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.