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sub·urb

 (sŭb′ûrb′)
n.
1. A usually residential area or community outlying a city.
2. suburbs The usually residential region around a major city; the environs.

[Middle English suburbe, from Old French, from Latin suburbium : sub-, sub- + urbs, urb-, city; see wer- in Indo-European roots.]
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suburb

(ˈsʌbɜːb)
n
(Human Geography) a residential district situated on the outskirts of a city or town
[C14: from Latin suburbium, from sub- close to + urbs a city]
ˈsuburbed adj
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sub•urb

(ˈsʌb ɜrb)

n.
1. a district lying immediately outside a city or town, esp. a smaller residential community.
2. the suburbs, the area composed of such districts.
[1350–1400; Middle English < Latin suburbium=sub- sub- + urb(s) city + -ium -ium1]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.suburb - a residential district located on the outskirts of a citysuburb - a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
residential area, residential district, community - a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
addition - a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area
bedroom community - a community where many commuters live
faubourg - a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city; "in Faubourg Sainte-Marie"
stockbroker belt - a wealthy residential suburb
outskirt, fringe - a part of the city far removed from the center; "they built a factory on the outskirts of the city"
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suburb

noun residential area, neighbourhood, outskirts, precincts, suburbia, environs, purlieus, dormitory area (Brit.), faubourgs a suburb of Manchester
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suburb

noun
The periphery of a city or town.Used in plural:
edge, environs, fringe, outskirt (often used in plural), skirt (used in plural).
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Translations
ضَاحِيَةضاحِيَه
předměstí
forstad
esikaupunki
predgrađe
úthverfi
近郊郊外
교외
priemiesčiai
priekšpilsēta
predmestje
förort
ชานเมือง
ngoại ô

suburb

[ˈsʌbɜːb] N
1. (affluent) a London suburbuna zona residencial de las afueras de Londres
I live in the suburbsvivo en una zona residencial de las afueras (de la ciudad)
new suburbbarrio m nuevo, ensanche m
2. (poor) → suburbio m
one of the city's poorer suburbsuno de los suburbios más pobres de la ciudad
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

suburb

[ˈsʌbɜːrb] nbanlieue f
a suburb of Paris → une banlieue de Paris
the suburbs → la banlieue
They live in the suburbs → Ils habitent en banlieue.
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

suburb

nVorort m; in the suburbsam Stadtrand
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suburb

[ˈsʌbɜːb] nsobborgo
to live in the suburbs → vivere in periferia
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

suburb

(ˈsabəːb) noun
(often in plural) an area of houses on the outskirts of a city, town etc. Edgbaston is a suburb of Birmingham; They decided to move out to the suburbs.
suˈburban adjective
of suburbs. suburban housing.
suˈburbia (-biə) noun
the suburbs.
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suburb

ضَاحِيَة předměstí forstad Vorort προάστιο barrio residencial esikaupunki banlieue predgrađe sobborgo 郊外 교외 voorstad forstad przedmieście subúrbio пригород förort ชานเมือง banliyö ngoại ô 郊区
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References in classic literature ?
One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well.
Holt's dwelling in one of the suburbs of Chicago had been destroyed by fire.
The side kept hidden from the general notice, exhibited this same gentleman in the totally different character of a man of pleasure, with a villa in the suburbs which was not taken in his own name, and with a lady in the villa, who was not taken in his own name, either.
For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their out-reaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the sciences, and all the generations of whales, and men, and mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving panoramas of empire on earth, and throughout the whole universe, not excluding its suburbs. Such, and so magnifying, is the virtue of a large and liberal theme!
Across the desolate plain, stripped bare of all vegetation, and made hideous forever by the growth of a mighty industry, where the furnace fires reddened the sky, and only the unbroken line of ceaseless lights showed where town dwindled into village and suburbs led back again into town.
After trying what the medical men of his own locality could do for him, with very poor success, he met by accident with a doctor living in the western suburbs of London, who thoroughly understood his complaint.
These two circumstances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much less frequented track; and after riding full six miles, instead of arriving at the stately spires of Coventry, they found themselves still in a very dirty lane, where they saw no symptoms of approaching the suburbs of a large city.
When the aisles and platforms were packed by the hilarious crowd, the train pulled out for the short run from the suburbs into Oakland.
I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs. It was one of the two evenings in every week which I was accustomed to spend with my mother and my sister.
Huge heaps of rubbish encumbered the suburbs, and, with the hill on which the market-place stood, formed the only inequalities of the ground.
As possessor of this fief, Claude Frollo was one of the twenty-seven seigneurs keeping claim to a manor in fee in Paris and its suburbs; and for a long time, his name was to be seen inscribed in this quality, between the Hôtel de Tancarville, belonging to Master François Le Rez, and the college of Tours, in the records deposited at Saint Martin des Champs.
He took his seat beside the aide-de-camp on duty and drove into the suburb. "Moscow deserted!" he said to himself.