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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
confines
noun: a bounded scope; "he stayed with the confines of the city"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "confines": airspace, approach, approximation, area, belt, boundaries, bounds, bourns, circumference, circumscription, closeness, compass, continental shelf, convergence, coordinates, corridor, country, department, district, division, edges, environs, foreground, fringes, ground, heartland, hinterland, immediacy, immediate foreground, land, limitations, limits, marches, metes, metes and bounds, milieu, nearness, neighborhood, nighness, offshore rights, outlines, outskirts, pale, parameters, part, parts, perimeter, periphery, place, precinct, precincts, premises, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, region, salient, section, skirts, soil, space, terrain, territory, three-mile limit, twelve-mile limit, verges, vicinage, vicinity, zone
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