"Outer Mongolia" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: outer (exterior, seen from China proper) + Mongolia Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=Outer Mongolia}} Outer Mongolia
  1. Mongolia; a region south of Siberia, west of Manchuria and north of Inner Mongolia (with closely related native Mongolian population), well north of the Great Wall, which never became an integral part of the Chinese empire, and later achieved autonomy and full independence of China, as the republic of Mongolia Categories (place): Mongolia Derived forms: Outer Mongolian Related terms: Küriye, Kulun, Ulaanbaatar, Ulan Bator [uppercase] Translations (Mongolia): 外蒙古 (Wài Měnggǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 外蒙 (Wài Měng) (Chinese Mandarin), Ydre Mongoli [neuter] (Danish), Buiten-Mongolië [neuter] (Dutch), ekstera Mongolio (Esperanto), Ytra Mongolia [neuter] (Faroese), Ulko-Mongolia (Finnish), Mongolie extérieure [feminine] (French), Außere Mongolei [feminine] (German), Mongolia Luar (Indonesian), 外蒙古 (Gai Mōko) (alt: がいもうこ) (Japanese), 외몽골 (Oemonggol) (alt: 外蒙古) (Korean), Тышкы Монголия (Tışkı Mongoliya) (Kyrgyz), ᡨᡠᠯᡝᡵᡤᡳ ᠮᠣᠩᡤᠣ (tulergi monggo) (Manchu), Ар Монгол (Ar Mongol) (Mongolian), Гадаад Монгол (Gadaad Mongol) (Mongolian), ᠠᠷᠤ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ (aru mongɣol) [Mongolian] (Mongolian), ᠭᠠᠳᠠᠭᠠᠳᠤ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ (ɣadaɣadu mongɣol) [Mongolian] (Mongolian), Mongólia Exterior [feminine] (Portuguese), Вне́шняя Монго́лия (Vnéšnjaja Mongólija) [feminine] (Russian), Mongolia Exterior [feminine] (Spanish), వెలుపలి మంగోలియా (velupali maṅgōliyā) (Telugu), Dış Moğolistan (Turkish), Даштыкы Моол (Daştıkı Mool) (Tuvan), تاشقى موڭغۇلىيە (tashqi mongghuliye) (Uyghur), Ngoại Mông (alt: 外蒙) (Vietnamese), Ngoại Mông Cổ (alt: 外蒙古) (Vietnamese)
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  2. (figurative) Any proverbially distant or remote place. Tags: figuratively Synonyms: Timbuktu
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          "text": "Troubleshooters were supposed to remain in control, and when she and Deke had one of their discussions, she didn’t stay cool and serene. Showing a weakness like that in front of a councilor was a good way to get assigned to Outer Mongolia.",
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          "ref": "1977 August 7, L. Chen, “Teng returns for Vance visit”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 31, Taipei, page 3:",
          "text": "Peiping regards Moscow as the revisionist headquarters. The East European satellite states, Cuba and Outer Mongolia are petty revisionists.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998 [1989], George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft, quoting Deng Xiaoping, A World Transformed, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 95:",
          "text": "“Yalta not only severed Outer Mongolia from China, but also brought the northeastern part of China into the Soviet sphere,” he went on. “After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, our first demands to the Soviet Union were to recover Chinese sovereignty over the Changchun Railway and Port Arthur. Only then was PRC authority in northeastern China confirmed. . . . We raised the question of Outer Mongolia, but the Soviets didn’t respond.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Mongolia; a region south of Siberia, west of Manchuria and north of Inner Mongolia (with closely related native Mongolian population), well north of the Great Wall, which never became an integral part of the Chinese empire, and later achieved autonomy and full independence of China, as the republic of Mongolia"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Mongolia",
          "Mongolia"
        ],
        [
          "Siberia",
          "Siberia"
        ],
        [
          "Manchuria",
          "Manchuria"
        ],
        [
          "Inner Mongolia",
          "Inner Mongolia"
        ],
        [
          "Mongolian",
          "Mongolian"
        ],
        [
          "Great Wall",
          "Great Wall"
        ],
        [
          "Chinese",
          "Chinese"
        ],
        [
          "China",
          "China"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004 March-April, Nora Ludd, “Bashing Bayer in Britain!”, in Earth First! The Radical Environmental Journal, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:",
          "text": "Nora Ludd feels much happier when making Bayer executives’ lives miserable by visiting their homes at night. He lives in a muddy ditch in the north of England, but is currently on a yoga holiday in Outer Mongolia with his tortoise animal companion.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Bernard Goldberg, “Matthew Lesko”, in 110 People Who Are Screwing Up America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:",
          "text": "Okay, so here’s an idea, Matthew: Take some of that “free” money from “legitimate sources of government,” buy a plane ticket to Outer Mongolia—and stay there.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Patti O'Shea, chapter 6, in In the Midnight Hour (Fiction), Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 70:",
          "text": "Troubleshooters were supposed to remain in control, and when she and Deke had one of their discussions, she didn’t stay cool and serene. Showing a weakness like that in front of a councilor was a good way to get assigned to Outer Mongolia.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any proverbially distant or remote place."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "proverbially",
          "proverbially"
        ],
        [
          "distant",
          "distant"
        ],
        [
          "remote",
          "remote"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) Any proverbially distant or remote place."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Timbuktu"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Wài Měnggǔ",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "word": "外蒙古"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Wài Měng",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "word": "外蒙"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Ydre Mongoli"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Buiten-Mongolië"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "word": "ekstera Mongolio"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Ytra Mongolia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "word": "Ulko-Mongolia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Mongolie extérieure"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Außere Mongolei"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "word": "Mongolia Luar"
    },
    {
      "alt": "がいもうこ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Gai Mōko",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "word": "外蒙古"
    },
    {
      "alt": "外蒙古",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "Oemonggol",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "word": "외몽골"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "Tışkı Mongoliya",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "word": "Тышкы Монголия"
    },
    {
      "code": "mnc",
      "lang": "Manchu",
      "roman": "tulergi monggo",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "word": "ᡨᡠᠯᡝᡵᡤᡳ ᠮᠣᠩᡤᠣ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "Ar Mongol",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "word": "Ар Монгол"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "Gadaad Mongol",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "word": "Гадаад Монгол"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "aru mongɣol",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "tags": [
        "Mongolian"
      ],
      "word": "ᠠᠷᠤ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "ɣadaɣadu mongɣol",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "tags": [
        "Mongolian"
      ],
      "word": "ᠭᠠᠳᠠᠭᠠᠳᠤ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Mongólia Exterior"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Vnéšnjaja Mongólija",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Вне́шняя Монго́лия"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Mongolia Exterior"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "velupali maṅgōliyā",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "word": "వెలుపలి మంగోలియా"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "word": "Dış Moğolistan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tyv",
      "lang": "Tuvan",
      "roman": "Daştıkı Mool",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "word": "Даштыкы Моол"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "tashqi mongghuliye",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "word": "تاشقى موڭغۇلىيە"
    },
    {
      "alt": "外蒙",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "word": "Ngoại Mông"
    },
    {
      "alt": "外蒙古",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "Mongolia",
      "word": "Ngoại Mông Cổ"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Outer Mongolia"
  ],
  "word": "Outer Mongolia"
}

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