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outskirts

Syllables: out·skirtsUK/ˈaʊtskɜːts//ˈaʊtskɝts/

outskirts noun: the area surrounding a city or town; suburb. Also the plural of outskirt.

Noun

outskirts pl (normally plural, singular outskirt)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) 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)...2003, Donald S. Sutton, “Places: Nine Troupes in Their Local Settings”, in Steps of Perfection: Exorcistic Performers and Chinese Religion in Twentieth-Century Taiwan, Harvard University Press...

Also used as

outskirts is also the plural of outskirt.

outskirts is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of outskirt.

outskirts meaning in Telugu, Odia and Persian

outskirts in Telugu

the edges or areas around a city or town
శివార్లు śivārlu

outskirts in Odia

ଉପକଣ୍ଠ

outskirts in Persian

the edges or areas around a city or town
حوالی havâli

Forms of outskirts

singularoutskirt

Origin of outskirts

From out- + skirts.

Questions about outskirts

What does outskirts mean?
Outskirts means the area surrounding a city or town; suburb.
What is outskirts in Telugu?
Outskirts in Telugu is శివార్లు (śivārlu). See Outskirts meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is outskirts?
Outskirts is a noun.
How do you pronounce outskirts?
Outskirts is pronounced /ˈaʊtskɝts/ (US).

Words near outskirts in the dictionary

  1. outskirt
  2. outskirted
  3. outskirter
  4. outskirters
  5. outskirting
  6. outskirts
  7. outskis
  8. outslander
  9. outslandered
  10. outslandering
  11. outslanders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outskirts (page history and authors); outskirts (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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