suburb
noun
- a district, esp. a residential district, on or near the outskirts of a city and often a separately incorporated city or town
- a region made up of such districts: with the
See suburb in American Heritage Dictionary 4
sub·urb
noun- A usually residential area or community outlying a city.
- suburbs The usually residential region around a major city; the environs.
Origin: Middle English suburbe, from Old French, from Latin suburbium : sub-, sub- + urbs, urb-, city.
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