suburb

[subĀ·urb]

A suburb is a residential district located on the outskirts of a city. If you live in the suburbs, you probably travel to the city for work.

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An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris.

Noun
a residential district located on the outskirts of a city


n.
An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris.

n.
Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment.


Suburb

Sub"urb , n. [L. suburbium; sub under, below, near + urbs a city. See Urban.] 1. An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris. "In the suburbs of a town." Chaucer.
[London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.
2. Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment. "The suburbs . . . of sorrow." Jer. Taylor.
The suburb of their straw-built citadel.
Suburb roister, a rowdy; a loafer. [Obs.] Milton.

An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris.

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Usage Examples

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

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