Outskirts vs Sides - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between outskirts and sides

is that outskirts is ; the edges or areas around a city or town while sides is .

(side).

(head)

English plurals; the edges or areas around a city or town.

He lived on the outskirts of Paris for a time.

* The plural is used much more often than the singular

(head)

(head)

(side)

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