outskirts

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Etymology 1

From out- +‎ skirt.

Noun

outskirts

The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.
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

Bulgarian: покрайнина (bg) f (pokrajnina)
Catalan: afores (ca) m pl, extraradi m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 郊外 (zh) (jiāowài), 郊區 (zh), 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

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 (ru) f (okráina) (го́рода), предме́стья (ru) n pl (predméstʹja)
Spanish: afueras (es) f pl
Swedish: utkant (sv) c, utkanter (sv) c pl
Telugu: శివార్లు (śivārlu)
Welsh: cyrion pl

Etymology 2

Noun

outskirts

plural of outskirt

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