edge of town
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3.0
- noun
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afueras
- Well, there's a soda fountain on the edge of town where all the high school kids go.
Most people aren't aware that it is actually cursed, but our main girl knows because she lives on the edge of town right next to the forest.
- Most people aren't aware that it is actually cursed, but our main girl knows because she lives on the edge of town right next to the forest.
- Now, Long story short is this leads me to this place on the edge of town in Las Vegas.
Examples
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"I live in a small house on lots of land, near the edge of town."
Fiction book (2000) -
Many new houses are being built at the edge of town, near the countryside.
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I know a place on the edge of town.
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That way, on the edge of town.
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Take a little walk to the edge of town
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What do you say we drive to a little place I know on the edge of town?
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The traffic was bad on the road just before the highway at the edge of town.
Fiction book (2000) -
Vi and Scott had a new house at the edge of town.
Fiction book (1993) -
Lilly's house is on the edge of town, and no one lives in the canyon beyond her place.
Fiction book (1998) -
Natalya Clayton lived in a big old house on the edge of town.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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2.7
An area just outside a city with many houses where people live
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3.1
A line or fence that marks the edge of an area and separates it from another
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3.5
An area at the edge of a town or city far from the centre
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6.5
The outer edge of an area, group, or idea
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2.5
A line around a city that shows where the city area ends
The line that shows where a city or town ends
Parts of a town or city that are far from the center
Antonyms
How Far
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the outer boundary of a town' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'edge' (outer boundary) with 'town' using the possessive/partitive preposition 'of'. This simple noun + of + noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Edge of town comes from the simple picture of where the last buildings of a town stop at a clear edge and the open fields or quiet roads begin. That's why it means 'the outer edge of a town'.