'outskirts' definitions:
Definition of 'outskirts'
(from WordNet)
noun
Outlying areas (as of a city or town); "they lived on the outskirts of Houston"; "they mingled in the outskirts of the crowd"
Synonyms of 'outskirts'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alentours,
- ambience,
- ambit,
- antipodes,
- bamboo curtain,
- banlieue,
- barrio,
- Berlin wall,
- black ghetto,
- blighted area,
- boom town,
- border,
- border ground,
- borderland,
- borderlands,
- borders,
- borough,
- boundaries,
- bounds,
- bourg,
- bourns,
- Bowery,
- burg,
- burgh,
- business district,
- central city,
- China,
- Chinatown,
- circle,
- circuit,
- circumambiencies,
- circumference,
- circumjacencies,
- circumscription,
- circumstances,
- city,
- city center,
- compass,
- confines,
- context,
- conurbation,
- coordinates,
- core,
- Darkest Africa,
- downtown,
- East End,
- East Side,
- edge,
- edges,
- entourage,
- environing circumstances,
- environment,
- environs,
- exurb,
- exurbia,
- exurbs,
- faubourg,
- fringes,
- frontier,
- frontier post,
- gestalt,
- ghetto,
- ghost town,
- God knows where,
- godforsaken place,
- greater city,
- greenbelt,
- Greenland,
- habitat,
- inner city,
- iron curtain,
- jumping-off place,
- limitations,
- limits,
- Little Hungary,
- Little Italy,
- march,
- marches,
- marchland,
- market town,
- megalopolis,
- metes,
- metes and bounds,
- metropolis,
- metropolitan area,
- midtown,
- milieu,
- municipality,
- neighborhood,
- North Pole,
- nowhere,
- outback,
- Outer Mongolia,
- outer space,
- outlines,
- outpost,
- outposts,
- Pago Pago,
- pale,
- parameters,
- perimeter,
- periphery,
- Pillars of Hercules,
- pole,
- polis,
- precincts,
- purlieus,
- red-light district,
- residential district,
- run-down neighborhood,
- shopping center,
- Siberia,
- situation,
- skid road,
- skid row,
- skirts,
- slum,
- slums,
- South Pole,
- spread city,
- Stadt,
- suburb,
- suburbia,
- suburbs,
- surroundings,
- tenderloin,
- tenement district,
- the boondocks,
- the Great Divide,
- the moon,
- the South Seas,
- the sticks,
- the tullies,
- three-mile limit,
- Thule,
- Tierra del Fuego,
- Timbuktu,
- total environment,
- town,
- township,
- twelve-mile limit,
- Ultima Thule,
- uptown,
- urban blight,
- urban complex,
- urban sprawl,
- urbs,
- verges,
- vicinage,
- vicinity,
- ville,
- West End,
- West Side,
- Yukon