OUTSKIRTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outskirts mean? 

• OUTSKIRTS (noun)
  The noun OUTSKIRTS has 1 sense:

1. outlying areas (as of a city or town)

  Familiarity information: OUTSKIRTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTSKIRTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Outlying areas (as of a city or town)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

they mingled in the outskirts of the crowd

Hypernyms ("outskirts" is a kind of...):

section (a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people)

 Context examples 

Stars and clusters in the outskirts of galaxies containing dark matter move at least three times faster.

(Dark Matter Goes Missing in Oddball Galaxy, NASA)

Running behind the carriage in the outskirts of San Jose, he encountered certain small boys who made a practice of flinging stones at him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“We are on the outskirts of Lee,” said my companion.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When he came to the outskirts, he called “Iron Hans” three times so loudly that it echoed through the trees.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Peering to the outskirts of our solar system, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a small, dark moon orbiting Makemake, the second brightest icy dwarf planet — after Pluto — in the Kuiper Belt.

(Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake, NASA)

A small but well-kept house in the outskirts of the town sheltered the bereaved mother.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jo pointed, and Laurie sat up to examine, for through an opening in the wood one could look cross the wide, blue river, the meadows on the other side, far over the outskirts of the great city, to the green hills that rose to meet the sky.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The night had already fallen, and the moon was shining between the rifts of ragged, drifting clouds, before Alleyne Edricson, footsore and weary from the unwonted exercise, found himself in front of the forest inn which stood upon the outskirts of Lyndhurst.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now Irvine was a man of impulse, a poet. He got off the train at the next station, bought a piece of meat at a butcher shop, and captured the vagrant on the outskirts of the town.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

When he came to the outskirts of the forest, he said to his followers: “Just stay waiting here, I alone will soon finish off the giants.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)