outlying

[ out-lahy-ing ]

adjective

1. lying lying lie at a distance from the center or the main body; remote; out-of-the-way:

   outlying military posts.

2. lying lying lie outside the boundary or limit.

outlying

/ ˈaʊtˌlaɪɪŋ /

adjective

1. distant or remote from the main body or centre, as of a town or region

Word History and Origins

Origin of outlying¹

First recorded in 1655–65; out- + lying ²

Example Sentences

PLA warships and submarines could set off across the 80-mile Taiwan Strait carrying an invasion force, seizing outlying islands and neutralizing their defenses as they progressed.

From Time

Instead, they believe it’s an outlying village whose residents gathered Spanish-made objects through trade, and must have scoured the battle site.

From Popular-Science

Low temperatures will tend to dip to near 50 in the District and 40s in our cooler outlying areas, which is also between five and 10 degrees below average.

From Washington Post

However, an outlying question for this hypothesis is where the floodwaters came from.

From Science News

I mean, one of the issues with the Milan’s hospitals right now is, they’re currently filled with people who got sick in outlying areas and then had to move to Milan to be taken care of.

From Freakonomics

Halfway to the park, the hustle of Goma and outlying villages faded behind him.

From The Daily Beast

And late Friday night there were more strikes on outlying areas of the besieged city now mostly empty of civilians.

From The Daily Beast

Salem was established as its center in 1766, with five outlying congregations.

From The Daily Beast

And contrary to what you might have heard, this is not some weird, outlying result that doesn't mean anything.

From The Daily Beast

Simpson found that OMG easily dates back to the 1980s, and even has an outlying instance in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill.

From The Daily Beast

They clattered through the outlying bazaar without disturbing a soul.

From Project Gutenberg

The outlying provinces of that monarchy in Europe would have sufficed to make three highly respectable states of the second order.

From Project Gutenberg

They stopped a while at mid-day at an outlying farm, but Winston glanced inquiringly at Alfreton when one of the sleighs went on.

From Project Gutenberg

The fact is there are so many regattas now that the tendency is to concentration, and consequently outlying stations suffer.

From Project Gutenberg

But outlying colonies of their nation exist, as is well known, in several lands, notably in Persia and India.

From Project Gutenberg

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