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Backsettler
noun · 78% connection
One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
Barn
noun · 78% connection
an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
Bastion
noun · 78% connection
A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
Birthplace
noun · 78% connection
The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
Bombardment
noun · 78% connection
An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
Borderer
noun · 78% connection
One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
Borough
noun · 78% connection
In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, con…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
Cantonment
noun · 78% connection
A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
Country
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
Emporium
noun · 78% connection
A place of trade; a market place; a mart; esp., a city or town with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
Environs
n. pl. · 78% connection
The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
Inhabitant
noun · 78% connection
One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
Kremlin
noun · 78% connection
The citadel of a town or city; especially, the citadel of Moscow, a large inclosure which contains imperial palaces, cathedrals, churc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
Large
superl. · 78% connection
Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; gre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
Limit
verb · 78% connection
That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
Local
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local cu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
March
noun · 78% connection
A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English histo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
Market
noun · 78% connection
An opportunity for selling anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; a town, region, or country, where the demand exi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: outlying, part, city, town, smaller.
