About The Word Suburb
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Suburb
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What's The Definition Of Suburb?
[n] a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
Synonyms | Synonyms for Suburb: suburban area | suburbia Related Terms | Find terms related to Suburb: See Also | addition | community | faubourg | fringe | Orly | outskirt | residential area | residential district | stockbroker belt | Wimbledon Suburb In Webster's Dictionary \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. --Hallam.
2. Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment.
``The suburbs . . . of sorrow.'' --Jer. Taylor.
The suburb of their straw-built citadel. --Milton.
{Suburb roister}, a rowdy; a loafer. [Obs.] --Milton.
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