Outlying
['aʊtlaɪɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) relatively far from a center or middle; 'outlying settlements' .
Typed by Anton--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.
Checker: Selma
Definition
adj. lying out or beyond: remote: on the exterior or frontier: detached.
Typist: Waldo
Examples
- Everywhere, young fellows from the outlying districts were making conversation with the girls, standing in the road and at the corners. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Over all the outlying district was a hush of dreadful excitement on that Sunday morning. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Look at the many outlying islands round a continent, and see how many of their inhabitants can be raised only to the rank of doubtful species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- One by one, however, the ships managed to dip below the crests of the outlying hills until only one barely moving craft was in sight. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He made little treats and teas for him, as if he came in with his homage from some outlying district where the tenantry were in a primitive state. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- One Hebrew tribe may have drifted down into Egypt and become enslaved, while the others were already attacking the outlying Canaanite cities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Poland was in fact in its origins an outlying part of Christendom and of the Holy Empire; Russia never was anything of the sort. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Waldo