outskirts
- noun
- /ˈaʊtˌskɜrts/
:
periferia
- They said Taliban forces are massed on the outskirts of Kabul.
And they were going through a little field on the outskirts of town, but in the town.
- And they were going through a little field on the outskirts of town, but in the town.
- They said Taliban forces are massed on the outskirts of Kabul.
- This was in Silver Spring, MD, so it's kind of the outskirts of DC.
- And it leads to very dense slums basically on the outskirts of cities.
- We were living in the outskirts of Paris because I am half French, half British.
- So this story time takes place and right in Baghdad, right around Baghdad, the outskirts of Baghdad.
- And they live in the outskirts of Plymouth, you know, down in the southwest of of England.
- It was huge laugh in the in the outskirts of of Culiacan.
- He owned a guy, He bought a garden on the outskirts of of Frankfurt.
- We, we are going on the outskirts here.
- I was sitting in your seat last year on the outskirts.
Examples
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And then you have your life in Houston and then you have your life in Star City, which is this special place on the outskirts of Moscow.
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The new shopping mall was built on the outskirts of town, attracting more visitors from nearby areas.
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It's on the eastern, eastern outskirts of Paris.
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We were living in the outskirts of Paris because I am half French, half British.
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You know, just in the outskirts of any any big city, you see all these houses which are half finished.
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This is like they make this in like a garage on the outskirts of San Francisco, the Bay Area.
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I want to have really difficult conversations, and that means talking to people that are at the outskirts of society.
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And they live in the outskirts of Plymouth, you know, down in the southwest of of England.
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This was in Silver Spring, MD, so it's kind of the outskirts of DC.
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But on Thursday, we had a meeting at an orphanage in the outskirts of La Vivre.
Synonyms
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2.7
An area just outside a city with many houses where people live
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3.5
An area at the edge of a town or city far from the centre
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1.0
Areas outside a city center where people live
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6.5
The outer edge of an area, group, or idea
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3.0
The outer part of a town where it meets the countryside
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4.2
Areas just outside a city where many people live
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2.5
A line around a city that shows where the city area ends
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8.8
A place where people live beyond the suburbs, often in the countryside, whose residents travel to the city for work
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9.9
A neighborhood outside the old part of a city, often in New Orleans
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Etymology
The word outskirts comes from out ('outside') and skirt, which once meant the 'edge' or border of something, like a skirt that goes around you. So the outskirts are the parts of a town that lie 'outside' the center, at the town's 'edge'.