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Another word for outlying

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Adjective

  1. Far from centers of human population

    Idioms:
    See also:

    near

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Another word for outlying

Modifier
  1. See also:

    remote

    distant

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Sentence Examples

  • In the outlying serfs' quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept.

  • Two were in outlying areas north of town and two in the city of Keene.

  • In the north were sprinkled the outlying villages of Islington, Hoxton and Clerkenwell.

  • According to his theory, the part of Jerusalem known as Jebus was situated on the western hill, and the outlying fort of Zion on the eastern hill.

  • Rough grazing could also be had on the outlying waste lands.

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