EGAVE

outlying

About 1.53 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Relatively remote from some central location.
    The more outlying villages were never visited by their member of parliament.
  2. adjective Located outside of some boundary or limit.
    When the map was redrawn after the war, our cousin found herself living in outlying territory.
  3. noun A region relatively remote from a central location.

Similar words

far outside off-site outer outward offshore outermost far-flung faraway remote

Often followed by

areas districts regions islands parts villages provinces settlements towns farms

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