Synonyms:
outlying(a)
Meaning: relatively far from a center or middle; "outlying settlements"
Usage examples
Deposit a charge of shot in some outlying section of Thomas the Tiger, and note the effect.
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.
But of course you hardly recognize them while the train is still passing through the suburbs and the golf district and the outlying parts of the city area.
After breakfast Alethia, on the pretext of going to look at an outlying rose-garden, slipped away to the village through which they had passed on the previous evening.
They pointed to it again, and to the outlying country, in different directions--but we pretended we did not know where it was, and in truth we were not quite sure and gave a rather wild indication of its whereabouts.
"I do not say that, captain," answered the lieutenant; "for, however far our little world may be removed from the sun, I do not see why its temperature should fall below what prevails in those outlying regions beyond our system where sky and air are not." "And what temperature may that be?" inquired the captain with a shudder.
After this came a review of the outer fortifications--if, indeed, they were worthy of the name--enclosing the gardens, the old tilting yard, now used as a bowling-green, the home-farmyard, and other such outlying portions under the stewardship of sir Ralph Blackstone and the governorship of Charles Somerset, the earl's youngest son.