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an area outside a city but near it and consisting mainly of homes, sometimes also having stores and small businesses: [ pl ] Most of the people who live in the suburbs work in the city. suburban. adjective us / səˈbɜr·bən / He grew up in a wealthy suburban community near Chicago.
an area outside a city but near it and consisting mainly of homes, sometimes also having stores and small businesses: [ pl ] Most of the people who live in the suburbs work in the city. suburban. adjective us / səˈbɜr·bən / He grew up in a wealthy suburban community near Chicago.
SUBURB definition: 1. an area where people live outside the centre of a city: 2. relating to a suburb: . Learn more.
A suburb of a city or large town is a smaller area which is part of the city or large town but is outside its centre. Anna was born in 1923 in Ardwick, a suburb of Manchester. [ + of] ...the north London suburbs of Harrow, Barnet and Enfield. 2. plural noun [oft in the N] B2.
1. a. : an outlying part of a city or town. b. : a smaller community adjacent to or within commuting distance of a city. c. suburbs plural : the residential area on the outskirts of a city or large town. 2. suburbs plural : the near vicinity : environs. suburban. sə-ˈbər-bən. adjective or noun. suburbanite. sə-ˈbər-bə-ˌnīt. noun. Did you know?
Definition of suburb noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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. Suburb comes from Latin: sub means "below or near" and urbis means "city." You also will recognize this root in urban.
a district lying immediately outside a city or town, especially a smaller residential community. the suburbs, the area composed of such districts. an outlying part. suburb. / ˈsʌbɜːb / noun. a residential district situated on the outskirts of a city or town. Discover More. Derived Forms. ˈsuburbed, adjective. Discover More. Other Words From.
noun. suburbs. A usually residential district or separately incorporated city or town, on or near the outskirts of a larger city. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. The usually residential region around a major city; the environs. American Heritage. A region made up of such districts. Webster's New World.
Britannica Dictionary definition of SUBURB. [count] : a town or other area where people live in houses near a larger city. She left the city and moved to the suburbs. [=one of the suburbs near that city] — often + of. the suburbs of Chicago. I grew up in a suburb of Denver.
