suburb
noun
a district lying immediately outside a city or town, especially a smaller residential community.
suburbs
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pluralof suburb.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Executives were trying to solve a puzzle: They could see some clients in Chicago’s affluent North Shore suburbs weren’t buying from the downtown Chicago store.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Many students protesting in recent weeks have spoken of inequalities in the education system, especially between Paris and its poorer working-class suburbs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Construction is underway in a mixed-use area designed to boost tourism in Omaha’s southern suburbs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Many of these schools are likely to be in high-immigration city suburbs, where the lack of teachers is most acute.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
By 1890 amateur scientists claimed to have found traces of Pleistocene Americans in New Jersey, Indiana, Ohio, and the suburbs of Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
