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outskirts: outlying areas (as of a city or town); "they lived on the outskirts of Houston"; "they mingled in the outskirts of the crowd"

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limits collapse

surroundings collapse

ambience collapse

exurb collapse

suburb collapse: a residential district located on the outskirts of a city

coordinates collapse

habitat collapse: the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"

Timbuktu collapse: a city in central Mali near the Niger river; formerly famous for its gold trade

burg collapse: colloquial American term for a town; "I've lived in this burg all my life"

nowhere collapse: an insignificant place; "he came out of nowhere"; not anywhere; in or at or to no place; "I am going nowhere"

entourage collapse

municipality collapse: people living in a town or city having local self-government; an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government

context collapse: discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation; the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event; "the historical context"

ghetto collapse: a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions; formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"; any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping; "the relative security of the gay ghetto"; "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"

tenement district collapse: a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses

barrio collapse: an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country; a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States)

skid row collapse: a city district frequented by vagrants and alcoholics and addicts

perimeter collapse: a line enclosing a plane areas

precincts collapse

Siberia collapse: a vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters

downtown collapse: of or located in the lower part of a town, or in the business center; "downtown Manhattan"; "delinquents roaming the downtown streets"; toward or in the lower or central part of town

midtown collapse

back of beyond collapse: a very remote and inaccessible place; "you'd have to go to the back of beyond to find one of those"

confines collapse: a bounded scope; "he stayed within the confines of the city"

slum collapse: a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions; visit slums for entertainment or out of curiosity

township collapse: an administrative division of a county; "the town is responsible for snow removal"

purlieus collapse

uptown collapse: a residential part of town away from the central commercial district; of or located in the upper part of a town; "uptown residential areas"; toward or in the upper part of town

parameter collapse: a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves; a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data; any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance

ambit collapse

environs collapse: an outer adjacent area of any place

neighborhood collapse: people living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush"

gestalt collapse: a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts

South Pole collapse: the southernmost point of the Earth's axis

North Pole collapse: the northernmost point of the Earth's axis

red light district collapse

vicinity collapse: a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods"

jumping off place collapse

suburbs collapse

antipodes collapse: any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth; "the North Pole and the South Pole are antipodes"

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