<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>Often outskirts.</li><li>the outlying district or region, as of a city, metropolitan area, or the like: to live on the outskirts of town; a sparsely populated outskirt.</li><li>Usually outskirts.</li><li>the border or fringes of a specified quality, condition, or the like: the outskirts of respectability.</li></ul>