outskirts

Speech parts

1. outskirts - Noun

2. outskirts - Verb

Meaning

outlying areas (as of a city or town)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

marge rand uptown frontier township outside selvage border neighborhood margin horizon rim perimeter circumference periphery
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Antonyms

apple florence center keystone centrum burgh
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Hypernyms

section

Phrases with the word

city outskirts outskirts of cities outskirts of city last outskirts

Examples

they lived on the outskirts of Houston Source: Internet

they mingled in the outskirts of the crowd Source: Internet

A 33-year-old man, G. Mahesh, was shot dead by unidentified persons near a bar located on the outskirts of the city under Nunna police station limits around last midnight. Source: Internet

About 5pm, CFA strike teams that had been sitting in wait for spot fires in the Ovens Valley were sent to put out a grassfire at Bandiana, on the outskirts of Wodonga. Source: Internet

About 20 to 30 people will occupy these houses which are being built on Crown land at Bay Street and on Reginald Stevens Street on the outskirts of St John’s City. Source: Internet

According to a police official, Sushanta Ghosh, 38, arrested from his house in Lankamura on the outskirts of the city, committed suicide at the West Agartala police station in Saturday-Sunday intervening night. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

outskip outskirt outskirter outskirts of cities outskirts of city outslander