outlying
English edit
Etymology edit
From outlie (Etymology 2) + -ing.
Adjective edit
outlying (comparative more outlying, superlative most outlying)
- Relatively remote from some central location.
- The more outlying villages were never visited by their member of parliament.
- 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 224:
- During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British "border raid") to the London Midland, and so on.
- 1959 March, R. C. Riley, “Home with the Milk”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 155, 157:
- Lorries collect the milk from the various outlying farms, whence it is taken to the district distribution centre to undergo pasteurisation.
- Located outside of some boundary or limit.
- When the map was redrawn after the war, our cousin found herself living in outlying territory.
Synonyms edit
- (relatively remote): distant, far; see also Thesaurus:distant
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
relatively remote from some central location
Noun edit
outlying (plural outlyings)
- A region relatively remote from a central location.
- 1975, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution Control Act of 1972: Effect on Small Communities:
- The other areas and the outlyings will have to come in at a later date, although the council wrestles with that periodically. But the amount of money involved would be substantial.
References edit
- “outlying”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “outlying”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.