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sub·urb (sub′ərb)

noun

  1. a district, esp. a residential district, on or near the outskirts of a city and often a separately incorporated city or town
  2. a region made up of such districts: with the

Etymology: ME < L suburbium < sub-, under, near + urbs (gen. urbis), town

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suburb Synonyms

suburb

n.

outlying district, residential district, suburbia, outskirts, banlieue (French), neighborhood; see also area 2.


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suburb Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • metropolis: So what is the UK's largest retailer actually doing at Denton, a fairly ordinary suburb of the metropolis of the northwest?

Converse of object

  • gat: Their desire to escape into the gated suburb of the hyper-real is only one aspect of this deep self-obsession [ 39 ] .

Adjective modifier

  • leafy: Most of the halls are in the leafy suburbs around a mile from the main campus.

Noun used with modifier

  • Maputo: President Armando Guebuza administered the first doses of the vaccine in the Maputo suburb of Mavalane as the symbolic launch of the campaign.
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