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OUTSKIRTS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Outlying areas (as of a city or town)

Example:

they mingled in the outskirts of the crowd

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

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

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

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 Context examples: 

While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us.

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