suburb

[ suhb-urb ]

/ ˈsʌb ɜrb /

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noun

a district lying immediately outside a city or town, especially a smaller residential community.

the suburbs, the area composed of such districts.

an outlying part.

Nearby words

subulate, subumbrella, subungual, subunit, subunit vaccine, suburb, suburban, suburbanite, suburbanization, suburbanize, suburbia

Origin of suburb

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin suburbium, equivalent to sub- sub- + urb(s) city + -ium -ium

Related forms

sub·urbed, adjectiveun·sub·urbed, adjective

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Examples from the Web for suburb

By September, he was flashing a thumbs-up to assembled fans as he walked into court in a Barcelona suburb.
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On a recent trip to a rough Roman suburb, he apologized for the extra police protection.
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And as this map shows, there are now five Soofas in Boston proper as well as two in the suburb of Babson.
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Stephen Knolls School is a public school in a Maryland suburb of Washington DC.
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On August 21, rockets struck in the east and west of the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, at the time a rebel stronghold.
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About seven o'clock we passed through Fordsburg, a suburb of Johannesburg.
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The fashionable watering-place of Drainville-on-Sea has a suburb in which apartments may be obtained at a very reasonable figure.
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Penny boats ply between city and suburb, on Sundays and holidays the music of a barrel-organ being thrown into the bargain.
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He lives in a poky house in a suburb, and works harder than anyone I know.
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The population was almost seven thousand, and the suburb was being extended.
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British Dictionary definitions for suburb

suburb

/ (ˈsʌbɜːb) /

noun

a residential district situated on the outskirts of a city or town

Derived Forms

suburbed, adjective

Word Origin for suburb

C14: from Latin suburbium, from sub- close to + urbs a city

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