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outskirts
OXFORD DICTIONARY
outskirts, n.pl. the outer border or fringe of a town, district, subject, etc.
THESAURUS
outskirts
Berlin wall, Bowery, China, Chinatown, Darkest Africa, East End, East Side, God knows where, Greenland, Little Hungary, Little Italy, North Pole, Outer Mongolia, Pago Pago, Pillars of Hercules, Siberia, South Pole, Stadt, Thule, Tierra del Fuego, Timbuktu, Ultima Thule, West End, West Side, Yukon, alentours, ambience, ambit, antipodes, bamboo curtain, banlieue, barrio, black ghetto, blighted area, boom town, border, border ground, borderland, borderlands, borders, borough, boundaries, bounds, bourg, bourns, burg, burgh, business district, central city, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumference, circumjacencies, circumscription, circumstances, city, city center, compass, confines, context, conurbation, coordinates, core, downtown, edge, edges, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, exurb, exurbia, exurbs, faubourg, fringes, frontier, frontier post, gestalt, ghetto, ghost town, godforsaken place, greater city, greenbelt, habitat, inner city, iron curtain, jumping-off place, limitations, limits, march, marches, marchland, market town, megalopolis, metes, metes and bounds, metropolis, metropolitan area, midtown, milieu, municipality, neighborhood, nowhere, outback, outer space, outlines, outpost, outposts, pale, parameters, perimeter, periphery, pole, polis, precincts, purlieus, red-light district, residential district, run-down neighborhood, shopping center, situation, skid road, skid row, skirts, slum, slums, spread city, suburb, suburbia, suburbs, surroundings, tenderloin, tenement district, the Great Divide, the South Seas, the boondocks, the moon, the sticks, the tullies, three-mile limit, total environment, town, township, twelve-mile limit, uptown, urban blight, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs, verges, vicinage, vicinity, villeROGET THESAURUS
outskirts
Circumjacence
N circumjacence, circumambience, environment, encompassment, atmosphere, medium, surroundings, outpost, border, girdle, outskirts, boulebards, suburbs, purlieus, precincts, faubourgs, environs, entourage, banlieue, neighborhood, vicinage, vicinity, circumjacent, circumambient, circumfluent, ambient, surrounding, circumferential, suburban, around, about, without, on every side, on all sides, right and left, all round, round about.For further exploring for "outskirts" in Webster Dictionary Online