noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The area surrounding a city or town; suburb. plural, plural-normally

   "He lived on the outskirts of Paris for a time."

2. 2
   plural of outskirt form-of, plural
3. 3
   outlying areas (as of a city or town) wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   third-person singular simple present indicative of outskirt form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

Synonyms

All synonyms

fringealentoursambienceambitantipodesback of beyond

Example

More examples

"The church sits on the outskirts of town."

Etymology

From out- + skirts.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.