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suburb

noun
/ˈsʌbɝb/US/ˈsʌbɜːb/UK

Etymology

From Old French suburbe, subburbe, from Latin suburbium (from sub- (“under-”) + urbs (“city”)). Displaced native Old English underburg (literally “underborough”).

  1. derived from suburbium
  2. derived from suburbe

Definitions

  1. A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes…

    A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc.

    • [London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.

  2. The outer part

    The outer part; the environment.

    • the suburbs […] of sorrow
    • the suburb of their straw-built citadel

  3. Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for suburb. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA