outlying

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adjective

lying at a distance from the center or the main body; remote; out-of-the-way: outlying military posts.

lying outside the boundary or limit.

Origin:
1655–65; out- + lying²

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outlying (ˈaʊtˌlaɪɪŋ)

—*adj*
	distant or remote from the main body or centre, as of a town or region

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Word Origin & History

outlying

"outside certain limits," 1663, from out + lying. Meaning "remote from the center" is first recorded 1689.

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Example sentences

The small town and outlying areas still count on revenues from cotton.

The timber-frame arbor shown at left covers an outlying patio on the same

property, and it is truly spectacular in the daylight.

Urban dwellers can forage both in the city, and in outlying areas.

Skeptics suggested their genes had originated inside the nucleus, and at some

point evolution had moved it into outlying shelters.

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