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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From out- + skirt.
Noun
Template:en-plural noun
- The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.
- He lived on the outskirts of Paris for a time.
Translations
the edges or areas around a city or town
- Bulgarian: покрайнина (bg) f (pokrajnina)
- Catalan: afores (ca) m pl, extraradi m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 郊外 (zh) (jiāowài), 郊區／郊区 (zh) (jiāoqū), 郊区 (zh) (jiāoqū)
- Finnish: laitakaupunki, esikaupunki (fi), laitamat
- French: banlieue (fr) f
- German: Stadtrand (de) m
- Greek: περίχωρα (el) n pl (períchora)
- Hungarian: külváros (hu)
- Irish: ciumhais f, imeachtar m
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- Italian: periferia (it) f
- Japanese: 郊外 (ja) (こうがい, kōgai), 町外れ (まちはずれ, machihazure)
- Korean: 교외 (ko) (gyooe), 근교 (ko) (geun'gyo)
- Persian: حوالی (fa) (havâli)
- Portuguese: periferia f (Brazil)
- Russian: окра́ина (го́рода) f (okráina (góroda)), предме́стья (ru) n pl (predméstʹja)
- Spanish: afueras (es) f pl, alrededores (es), extrarradio
- Swedish: utkant (sv) c, utkanter (sv) c pl
- Telugu: శివార్లు (śivārlu)
- Welsh: cyrion pl
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Etymology 2
Noun
outskirts
- plural of outskirt
