outskirts

outskirts
Synonyms and related words:
Berlin wall, Bowery, China, Chinatown, Darkest Africa, East End, East Side, God knows where, Greenland, Little Hungary, Little Italy, North Pole, Outer Mongolia, Pago Pago, Pillars of Hercules, Siberia, South Pole, Stadt, Thule, Tierra del Fuego, Timbuktu, Ultima Thule, West End, West Side, Yukon, alentours, ambience, ambit, antipodes, bamboo curtain, banlieue, barrio, black ghetto, blighted area, boom town, border, border ground, borderland, borderlands, borders, borough, boundaries, bounds, bourg, bourns, burg, burgh, business district, central city, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumference, circumjacencies, circumscription, circumstances, city, city center, compass, confines, context, conurbation, coordinates, core, downtown, edge, edges, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, exurb, exurbia, exurbs, faubourg, fringes, frontier, frontier post, gestalt, ghetto, ghost town, godforsaken place, greater city, greenbelt, habitat, inner city, iron curtain, jumping-off place, limitations, limits, march, marches, marchland, market town, megalopolis, metes, metes and bounds, metropolis, metropolitan area, midtown, milieu, municipality, neighborhood, nowhere, outback, outer space, outlines, outpost, outposts, pale, parameters, perimeter, periphery, pole, polis, precincts, purlieus, red-light district, residential district, run-down neighborhood, shopping center, situation, skid road, skid row, skirts, slum, slums, spread city, suburb, suburbia, suburbs, surroundings, tenderloin, tenement district, the Great Divide, the South Seas, the boondocks, the moon, the sticks, the tullies, three-mile limit, total environment, town, township, twelve-mile limit, uptown, urban blight, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs, verges, vicinage, vicinity, ville

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  • Outskirts — may refer to: The outskirts of a city, also known as the rural urban fringe Outskirts, by the Canadian country rock band Blue Rodeo The Outskirts, a 1933 Soviet film directed by Boris Barnet The Outskirts, a 1998 Russian film directed by Pyotr… …   Wikipedia

  • outskirts — [out′skʉrts΄] pl.n. 1. districts remote from the center or midst, as of a city; outlying regions sometimes, esp. formerly, used in sing. [much construction in the outskirts of the city] 2. the outer edge, border, or margin [a shack at the… …   Universalium

  • outskirts — [out′skʉrts΄] pl.n. 1. districts remote from the center or midst, as of a city; outlying regions sometimes, esp. formerly, used in sing. [much construction in the outskirts of the city] 2. the outer edge, border, or margin [a shack at the… …   English World dictionary

  • outskirts — index border, edge (border), frontier, periphery, vicinity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • outskirts — [n] edge of a geographic area bedroom community*, border, boundary, edge, environs, limit, outpost, periphery, purlieu, purlieus, sticks*, suburb, suburbia, vicinity; concepts 508,513 Ant. center, downtown …   New thesaurus

  • outskirts — ► PLURAL NOUN ▪ the outer parts of a town or city …   English terms dictionary

  • outskirts — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ city ▪ northern, etc. VERB + OUTSKIRTS ▪ reach PREPOSITION ▪ in the  …   Collocations dictionary

  • outskirts — out|skirts [ aut,skɜrts ] noun plural the areas of a town or city that are farthest away from the center: Alberton is located in Johannesburg s eastern outskirts. on the outskirts of: a park on the outskirts of Chicago …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • outskirts — UK [ˈaʊtˌskɜː(r)ts] / US [ˈaʊtˌskɜrts] noun [plural] the areas of a town or city that are furthest away from the centre Alberton is located in Johannesburg s eastern outskirts. on the outskirts of: a park on the outskirts of Edinburgh …   English dictionary

  • outskirts — n. on the outskirts (of a city) * * * on the outskirts (of a city) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • outskirts — out|skirts [ˈautskə:ts US ə:r ] n [plural] the parts of a town or city that are furthest from the centre on the outskirts (of sth) ▪ They live on the outskirts of Paris …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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