suburb
Americannoun
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a district lying immediately outside a city or town, especially a smaller residential community.
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the suburbs, the area composed of such districts.
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an outlying part.
noun
Other Word Forms
- suburbed adjective
- unsuburbed adjective
Etymology
Origin of suburb
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin suburbium, from sub- sub- + urb(s) “city” + -ium -ium
Example Sentences
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The Huffington Post reported that four children from an elementary school in a heavily Latino suburb of Minneapolis had been shipped to a detention facility in Texas.
From Los Angeles Times
The protest was held in Lutry, a suburb of Lausanne from where several of the victims who died in the January 1 blaze in the Crans-Montana resort hailed.
From Barron's
In a small suburb right on the outskirts of Minneapolis, student attendance has dropped by one-third, according to local Superintendent Brenda Lewis.
When he addressed roughly 1,000 local sales employees early this year in this Seoul suburb, aides had Korean translations of his English-language speech ready to display on a large screen.
Protester Mohammed Daher, a retired public employee, told AFP that he now receives only two hours of electricity a day in the Tadamon suburb of Damascus.
From Barron's
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