outskirts en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈaʊtskɜːts/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈaʊtskɝts/ (General-American)
- (US) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- English skirts English outskirts From out- + skirts.
Meanings
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(plural, plural-normally) The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.
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.
2025 December 8, Dmytro Durnev, “A voice from the kill zone : One Ukrainian sergeant tells Novaya Europe he is prepared to defend Donbas from Russian forces for as long as it takes”, in Novaya Gazeta Europe: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.
2021 July 23, Vivian Wang, Joy Dong, Tiffany May, “Men Who Beat Hong Kong Protesters in Mob Attack Are Sentenced to Prison”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2021, Asia Pacific:There are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts of Boston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a combination of masculine and feminine), agender (the absence of gender) and gender-fluid (moving between genders) as lacking a basis in biology.
2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2019: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.
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, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63:He lived on the outskirts of Paris for a time.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| outskirt | Number=Sing | lexicographic |
Translations (45)
sv utkanter (the edges or areas around a city or town) · bg покрайнина (the edges or areas around a city or town) · ko 교외 (the edges or areas around a city or town) · te శివార్లు (the edges or areas around a city or town) · az ucqar (the edges or areas around a city or town) · pl peryferie (the edges or areas around a city or town) · fa حوالی (the edges or areas around a city or town) · ga imeachtar (the edges or areas around a city or town) · ja 町外れ (the edges or areas around a city or town) · es aledaño (the edges or areas around a city or town) · pt periferia (the edges or areas around a city or town) · es aledaños (the edges or areas around a city or town) · fi laitakaupunki (the edges or areas around a city or town) · ca afores (the edges or areas around a city or town) · pt arredores (the edges or areas around a city or town) · ca extraradi (the edges or areas around a city or town) · ru предме́стья (the edges or areas around a city or town) · fi esikaupunki (the edges or areas around a city or town) · el περίχωρα (the edges or areas around a city or town) · pt subúrbio (the edges or areas around a city or town) · cy cyrion (the edges or areas around a city or town) · ko 근교 (the edges or areas around a city or town) · fi laitamat (the edges or areas around a city or town) · fr banlieue (the edges or areas around a city or town) · ru окра́ина (the edges or areas around a city or town) · hu külváros (the edges or areas around a city or town) · cmn 郊區 /郊区 (the edges or areas around a city or town) · ga ciumhais (the edges or areas around a city or town) · it periferia (the edges or areas around a city or town) · es alrededores (the edges or areas around a city or town) · az kənar (the edges or areas around a city or town) · lv nomale (the edges or areas around a city or town) · es extrarradio (the edges or areas around a city or town) · ja 郊外 (the edges or areas around a city or town) · es afueras (the edges or areas around a city or town) · es periferia (the edges or areas around a city or town) · cmn 郊外 (the edges or areas around a city or town) · de Stadtrand (the edges or areas around a city or town) · sv utkant (the edges or areas around a city or town) · be ускра́іна (the edges or areas around a city or town) · ota دامن (the edges or areas around a city or town) · az qıraq (the edges or areas around a city or town) · lv priekšpilsēta (the edges or areas around a city or town) · pt arrabalde (the edges or areas around a city or town) · es arrabal (the edges or areas around a city or town)