PERIMETERS Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

perimeters

noun

plural of perimeter

as in edges

the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something soldiers guarding the perimeter of the camp

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Recent Examples of perimeters That plan must spell out when perimeters are established and removed, how distances are determined, how emergency access is preserved, and how officers engage with the public. —

Joseph Potasnik, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026 These passes, like standard passes, are for parking spaces outside security perimeters. —

Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2026 Funding should be provided for entryways and perimeters for all school campuses. —

Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026 Some fans even broke through perimeters, including bringing down a temporary fence, to watch as Messi waved back at them from the back of the vehicle. —

Gianfranco Panizo, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2026 Our sense of belonging, our sense of identity, comes from our sense of perimeters and boundaries, of how far is too far away, of where home is. —

B. R. Cohen, Longreads, 13 Jan. 2026 At no point in the 150 episodes that chronicled Private Pyle’s five years within the safe perimeters of Camp Henderson, CA, was the war in Vietnam, then at napalm-hot intensity, mentioned. —

Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 29 Dec. 2025 Stockings filled with dog or human hair, windchimes, pie tins, or old CDs held aloft on a string, and fishing line installed around garden perimeters are also used to repel deer and rabbits. —

Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Dec. 2025 Des Cars promised to create no-parking perimeters in areas around the museum, upgrade the security camera system, and ask the interior ministry to establish a police station inside the museum. —

Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025

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Noun

The sound box had a teardrop shape, just a couple of inches deep, with a golden-brown polyurethane finish that darkened to black at the edges.

— Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026
The tall grass and low brush keeps the snow soft for winter roosting and snow burrowing, but it’s being taken over by tamarac trees invading the edges.

— Andrew Weeks, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2026