Usually means: Areas located around a city's edge.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. outskirts: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. outskirts: Merriam-Webster
  3. outskirts: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. outskirts: Collins English Dictionary
  5. outskirts: Vocabulary.com
  6. Outskirts, outskirts: Wordnik
  7. the outskirts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. outskirts: Wiktionary
  9. outskirts: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. outskirts: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. outskirts: Dictionary.com
  12. outskirts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Outskirts (album), Outskirts: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. outskirts: Rhymezone
  15. outskirts: FreeDictionary.org
  16. outskirts: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. outskirts: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. outskirts: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. outskirts: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. outskirts: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See outskirt as well.)

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▸ noun:  The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.

Similar:
fringe, suburbs, exurbia, outparish, satellite town, outlands, penturbia, outstreet, outvillage, Umland, more...

Opposite:
center, downtown, core, heart, hub

Phrases:
outskirts of town, outskirts of a city, town on the outskirts, outskirts of the city, on the outskirts, more...

Adjectives:
northern, western, southern, eastern, very, far, immediate, rural, northwestern, extreme, southwestern

Colors:
    olive,     sage,     rust,     taupe,     umber, more...



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Similar:
fringe, suburbs, exurbia, outparish, satellite town, outlands, penturbia, outstreet, outvillage, Umland, more...

Opposite:
center, downtown, core, heart, hub

Phrases:
outskirts of town, outskirts of a city, town on the outskirts, outskirts of the city, on the outskirts, outskirts of society, outskirts of a town, more...

Adjectives:
northern, western, southern, eastern, very, far, immediate, rural, northwestern, extreme, southwestern

Colors:
    olive,     sage,     rust,     taupe,     umber, more...



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