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# outlying

adjective

«outlying» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Outlying means far from the centre, out on the edge of a place. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlying/#m1)

### In the lessons

far-off fields, farms or villages that lie away from the main town

### Examples

- They walked to the outlying farms. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlying/#x1)
- The outlying houses were dark. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlying/#x2)
- The school serves the outlying villages. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlying/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «outlying» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlying/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«outlying» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/outlying.html) on Mova free.