OUTLYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outlying mean? 

• OUTLYING (adjective)
  The adjective OUTLYING has 1 sense:

1. relatively far from a center or middle

  Familiarity information: OUTLYING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTLYING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relatively far from a center or middle

Context example:

outlying settlements

Similar:

far (located at a great distance in time or space or degree)

 Context examples 

Are we really just at the edge of the unknown, encountering the outlying pickets of this lost world of which our leader speaks?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The trains which traverse the lines of rail beside which the body was found are those which run from west to east, some being purely Metropolitan, and some from Willesden and outlying junctions.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whilst the knights had charged them in front the slingers had crept round upon either flank and had gained a footing upon the cliffs and behind the outlying rocks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All went well until I aimed a blow at an outlying cow's head and fell short.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Grey Beaver had crossed the great watershed between Mackenzie and the Yukon in the late winter, and spent the spring in hunting among the western outlying spurs of the Rockies.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The outlying villas closed up thicker and thicker, until their shoulders met, and we were driving between a double line of houses with garish shops at the corners, and such a stream of traffic as I had never seen, roaring down the centre.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now it was a lithe, furtive stoat which shot across the path upon some fell errand of its own; then it was a wild cat which squatted upon the outlying branch of an oak and peeped at the traveller with a yellow and dubious eye.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A swift messenger had the night before sped round to the outlying dependencies of the Abbey, and had left the summons for every monk to be back in the cloisters by the third hour after noontide.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the vine-yard and the vine-press, from the bouvary or ox-farm, from the marl-pits and salterns, even from the distant iron-works of Sowley and the outlying grange of St. Leonard's, they had all turned their steps homewards.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)