Definitions for outskirts
out·skirts

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. outskirts(noun)

   outlying areas (as of a city or town)

   "they lived on the outskirts of Houston"; "they mingled in the outskirts of the crowd"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. outskirts(Noun)

   ; the edges or areas around a city or town.

   He lived on the outskirts of Paris for a time.

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1. Outskirts

   Outskirts is the 1987 debut album by Blue Rodeo. The single "Try" was a hit for the band in their native Canada. To mark the 25th anniversary of the album, Blue Rodeo released a 2-LP Vinyl remixed edition, called Outskirts Remix on November 27, 2012.

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. OUTSKIRTS

   The only garments which clothe many a metropolis with decency.

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1. outskirts

   near the outside/edge of a town (owt-skert)

   I went to the outskirt of my town

   Submitted by anonymous on August 26, 2014  

How to pronounce outskirts?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say outskirts in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of outskirts in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of outskirts in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of outskirts in a Sentence

1. New Horizons:

   New Horizons is on a journey to a new class of planets we've never seen, in a place we've never been before, for decades, we thought Pluto was this odd little body on the planetary outskirts; now we know it's really a gateway to an entire region of new worlds in the Kuiper Belt, and New Horizons is going to provide the first close-up look at them.

2. Jonathan Davis:

   These telescopes were designed to look for diffuse light around galaxies. Not in the context of dark matter, but you can repurpose the data to look for this glow, [The Dragonfly telescopes] are really good at looking for this high contrast between the really bright galactic center and the really dim outskirts of galaxies.

3. Edson Aparecido:

   Where people are dying is on the outskirts of the city. That's why social isolation is so important.

4. President Petro Poroshenko:

   I think the fact of using the tense situation on the outskirts of Debaltseve by militants-terrorists-mercenaries poses a great threat, which can violate the ceasefire regime.

5. Sharfan Darwish:

   There is news about many Daesh (IS) members escaping and evacuating some areas of Manbij and booby-trapping them, our forces are now on the outskirts of the city. The campaign continues.

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