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# outlying

«outlying» in Mova's school dictionary: **far from the centre, out on the edge of a place** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «outlying» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlying/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.