outskirts

English

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Noun

outskirts

1. Plural form of outskirt; the edges or areas around a city or town.

   He lived on the outskirts of Paris for a time.

Usage notes

• The plural is used much more often than the singular

Translations

the edges or areas around a city or town

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 郊區 (cmn), 郊区 (cmn) (jiāoqū)

• Finnish: laitakaupunki (fi), esikaupunki (fi), laitamat (fi)
• German: Stadtrand (de) m
• Greek: περίχωρα (el) (períchora) n pl
• Hungarian: külváros (hu)
• Japanese: 郊外 (ja) (こうがい, kōgai), 町外れ (ja) (まちはずれ, machihazure)

• Portuguese: periferia f (Brazil)
• Russian: окраина (ru) (okráina) f (го́рода), предместья (ru) (predméstʹja) n pl
• Spanish: afueras (es) f
• Telugu: శివార్లు (Sivaarlu)
• Welsh: cyrion (cy) pl