Outskirts
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈaʊtskɝts/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Outskirts is a noun meaning The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.
Meaning
The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.
More Meanings
- plural of outskirt
- third-person singular simple present indicative of outskirt
Example Sentences
He lived on the outskirts of Paris for a time.
Viktor is monitoring the brigade’s area of responsibility by watching a livestream from a drone flying somewhere over the outskirts of Kostyantynivka on his smartphone.
More than 100 men, wearing white T-shirts and wielding sticks and clubs, stormed the station in Yuen Long, on Hong Kong’s northwestern outskirts, and assaulted people, including passengers on a subway car.
The village borders on the Hakka district of Wanluan on the southeastern outskirts of Chaozhou, and its temple is modest in size, with a front and rear chamber and two larger temporary extensions front and side. Yet its members (unaware of similarly named temples in Pingdong as well as Donggang) insist that it is the City God of the county of Pingdong.
Word Forms
- outskirt
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fringe, suburbs, surroundings, peripheral, approaches, rand.
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