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# outskirt

noun

«outskirt» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

47 uses in 34 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 47 of 47. By the class of the article: city 22, agglomeration 4, country 4, university 4. Most often with: «city», «town», «new», «have», «part».

### Examples

- The race begins and ends in the area of Owasco Lake on the southern outskirts of Auburn. — [Auburn, New York](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn,_New_York), sentence 74 («wiki:Auburn,\_New\_York:74»)
- The outskirts are governed by several Gram Panchayats. — [Berhampore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berhampore), sentence 66 («wiki:Berhampore:66»)
- This organisation continued its violent conflict on the outskirts of the capital despite the UN's presence. — [Burundi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi), sentence 167 («wiki:Burundi:167»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«Auburn, New York»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn,_New_York), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Berhampore»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berhampore), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Burundi»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.