Outskirt
['aʊtskɜːt] or ['aʊt,skɝt]
Definition
(noun.) a part of the city far removed from the center; 'they built a factory on the outskirts of the city'.
Typist: Mabel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A part remote from the center; outer edge; border; -- usually in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town.
Edited by Bradley
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Suburb, border, environs.
Inputed by Gerard
Definition
n. the outer skirt: border: suburb—often used in pl.
Inputed by Chris
Unserious Contents or Definition
The only garments which clothe many a metropolis with decency.
Checked by Judith
Examples
- I don't know that the arts have a milieu here, any of them; they're more like a very thinly settled outskirt. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I should have walked on to the church if the conversation of two men and a woman on the outskirts of the crowd had not caught my ear. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Artificial reservoirs are usually constructed on the near outskirts of a town in order that the frictional force lost in transmission may be reduced to a minimum. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I stopped the recruiting service, and disposed the troops about the outskirts of the city so as to guard all approaches. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I met the Prince in the New Road, at the outskirts of London, some time afterwards. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Among those circling futilely the outskirts of the banqueters was old Tublat. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- She stopped in the outskirts of the town, where she had noticed trunks for sale, and purchased a handsome one. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- When the wagon approached the outskirts of the town I was met by a large crowd. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We are on the outskirts of Lee, said my companion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- One very big one, I killed at dusk in the outskirts of the village on my way home one night in November. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Their residences are usually on the outskirts of 'the Rules,' chiefly lying within a circle of one mile from the obelisk in St. George's Fields. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But this time it was no breaking away at the outskirts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My wanderings had led me round the outskirts of the village, and had brought me out at the lower end of it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There was a considerable force of State militia at Camp Jackson, on the outskirts of St. Louis, at the time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The scene now changes to a small, neat tenement, in the outskirts of Montreal; the time, evening. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He directed me to the clerk's abode, a cottage at some little distance off, standing by itself on the outskirts of the forsaken village. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Editor: Priscilla