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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outskirts
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the outskirts of a city (=the edge)
▪ There were several bombings on the outskirts of the city.
the outskirts/edge of a town
▪ It was six o'clock when she reached the outskirts of the town.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
live
▪ He still lives on the outskirts of his adopted city close on 30 years after he signed for them.
reach
▪ The waters flow on downstream, eventually reaching the outskirts of Stroud itself.
▪ It was dark when they reached the outskirts of Edinburgh.
▪ She was relieved when Nigel had to slow down as they reached the outskirts of Cheltenham.
▪ It was six o'clock when she reached the outskirts of the town and the traffic had dwindled to a trickle.
▪ Other were even reported to have reached the outskirts of Baghdad itself, though this was not confirmed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ By 9 o'clock we reached the outskirts of Berlin.
▪ Her parents lived in a big house on the outskirts of Manchester.
▪ His body was discovered on the city's outskirts three days later.
▪ The Cité De Science is a futuristic complex in the Parisian outskirts.
▪ There are plans to build a new shopping mall on the outskirts of town.
▪ We heard gunshots as we drove through the outskirts of the city.
▪ We stayed on the outskirts of the capital.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After three days in the hotel I found a small new house on the outskirts of town.
▪ And on the outskirts of town, with the roar of the sea, we passed by the Glengall House.
▪ His body was discovered on the city's outskirts three days later.
▪ The only remaining obstacles are located at Wester Hailes, a residential development on the western outskirts of Edinburgh.
▪ The slaughterhouse is on the outskirts of the town, and can be smelled before it comes into view.
▪ They would move to the outskirts of Paris.
▪ Tiny fields, green and white where the snow was melting again, led down to the outskirts of the town.
Wiktionary
outskirts

n. (plural of outskirt English)Category:English plurals; the edges or areas around a city or town.

WordNet
outskirts

n. outlying areas (as of a city or town); "they lived on the outskirts of Houston"; "they mingled in the outskirts of the crowd"

Wikipedia
Outskirts (album)

Outskirts is the 1987 debut album by Blue Rodeo. The singles "Try" and "Rose-Coloured Glasses" were hits for the band in their native Canada, where "Outskirts" and "Rebel" also made the singles charts.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the album, Blue Rodeo released a 2-LP Vinyl remixed edition, called Outskirts Remix on November 27, 2012.

Outskirts

Outskirts may refer to:

  • Rural–urban fringe or outskirts, a transition zone where urban and rural uses mix
  • Outskirts (album), a 1987 album by Blue Rodeo
  • Outskirts (1933 film), a 1933 Soviet film by Boris Barnet
  • The Outskirts (1998 film), a 1998 Russian satirical film by Pyotr Lutsik, loosely based on the 1933 film
  • The Outskirts (2015 film), an upcoming American high school comedy film with Victoria Justice
Outskirts (1933 film)

Outskirts (, meaning Outskirts), also known in English as The Patriots or by the transliterated Russian title Okraina, is a 1933 Soviet film directed by Boris Barnet.