outskirts

noun

1. 1

   The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.

   He lived on the outskirts of Paris for a time.

   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.

   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.

   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.

noun

1. 1

   Also a form of outskirtplural of outskirt

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of outskirtthird-person singular simple present indicative of outskirt

Forms

singular

outskirt