the parts of a town or city that are furthest from the centreThey live on the outskirts of Milan.Wordfinderlocationisolated,location,neighbourhood,outskirts,provincial,residential,rough,rural,suburban,urbanOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectivecity,northern,etc.,…verb + outskirtsreachprepositionin the outskirts ,on the outskirts ,through the outskirts ,…Seefull entrySee related entries:House locationExtra examplesWe live on the outskirts of Leeds.We were driving through the outskirts of Baghdad.a school in the outskirts of Athens
See outskirts in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
