sub·urb

(sŭb′ûrb′)

1. A usually residential area or community outlying a city.

2. suburbs The usually residential region around a major city; the environs.

[Middle English suburbe, from Old French, from Latin suburbium : sub-, sub- + urbs, urb-, city; see wer- in Indo-European roots.]

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suburb

(ˈsʌbɜːb)

(Human Geography) a residential district situated on the outskirts of a city or town

[C14: from Latin suburbium, from sub- close to + urbs a city]

ˈsuburbed adj

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sub•urb

(ˈsʌb ɜrb)

n.

1. a district lying immediately outside a city or town, esp. a smaller residential community.

2. the suburbs, the area composed of such districts.

[1350–1400; Middle English < Latin suburbium=sub- sub- + urb(s) city + -ium -ium¹]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

suburb - a residential district located on the outskirts of a city

suburban area, suburbia

residential area, residential district, community - a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences

addition - a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area

bedroom community - a community where many commuters live

faubourg - a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city; "in Faubourg Sainte-Marie"

stockbroker belt - a wealthy residential suburb

outskirt, fringe - a part of the city far removed from the center; "they built a factory on the outskirts of the city"

suburb

noun residential area, neighbourhood, outskirts, precincts, suburbia, environs, purlieus, dormitory area (Brit.), faubourgs a suburb of Manchester

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suburb

noun

The periphery of a city or town.Used in plural:

edge, environs, fringe, outskirt (often used in plural), skirt (used in plural).

Translations

ضَاحِيَةضاحِيَه

předměstí

forstad

Vorort

προάστιο

afueras barrio residencial

esikaupunki

banlieue

predgrađe

úthverfi

sobborgo periferia

近郊郊外

교외

priemiesčiai

priekšpilsēta

predmestje

förort

ชานเมือง

banliyö

ngoại ô

郊区

suburb

[ˈsʌbɜːb] N

1. (affluent) a London suburb → una zona residencial de las afueras de Londres
I live in the suburbs → vivo en una zona residencial de las afueras (de la ciudad)
new suburb → barrio m nuevo, ensanche m

2. (poor) → suburbio m
one of the city's poorer suburbs → uno de los suburbios más pobres de la ciudad

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

suburb

[ˈsʌbɜː^rb] n → banlieue f
a suburb of Paris → une banlieue de Paris
the suburbs → la banlieue
They live in the suburbs → Ils habitent en banlieue.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

suburb

n → Vorort m; in the suburbs → am Stadtrand

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

suburb

[ˈsʌbɜːb] n → sobborgo
to live in the suburbs → vivere in periferia

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

suburb

(ˈsabəːb) noun

(often in plural) an area of houses on the outskirts of a city, town etc. Edgbaston is a suburb of Birmingham; They decided to move out to the suburbs.

suˈburban adjective

of suburbs. suburban housing.

suˈburbia (-biə) noun

the suburbs.

suburb

→ ضَاحِيَة předměstí forstad Vorort προάστιο barrio residencial esikaupunki banlieue predgrađe sobborgo 郊外 교외 voorstad forstad przedmieście subúrbio пригород förort ชานเมือง banliyö ngoại ô 郊区

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He took his seat beside the aide-de-camp on duty and drove into the suburb. "Moscow deserted!" he said to himself.

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But as the artist lived in a remote suburb, it was decided to take the carriage.

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Alicia, by my advice, engaged a modest lodging in a suburb of Barkingham.

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Beginning in Boston, they were continued in a Boston suburb, on the shores of Lake George, in a Western New York health resort, in Buffalo, in Nahant; once, twice, and thrice in New York, with reversions to Boston, and summer excursions to the hills and waters of New England, until it seemed that their author had at last said his say, and he voluntarily lapsed into silence with the applause of friends and enemies alike.

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As to Henry C-, the next in age and wisdom of our band, he had broken loose from the unyielding rigidity of his family, solidly rooted, if I remember rightly, in a well-to-do London suburb. On their respectable authority he introduced himself meekly to strangers as a "black sheep." I have never seen a more guileless specimen of an outcast.

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In the venerable suburb--it was a suburb once--of Clerkenwell, towards that part of its confines which is nearest to the Charter House, and in one of those cool, shady Streets, of which a few, widely scattered and dispersed, yet remain in such old parts of the metropolis,--each tenement quietly vegetating like an ancient citizen who long ago retired from business, and dozing on in its infirmity until in course of time it tumbles down, and is replaced by some extravagant young heir, flaunting in stucco and ornamental work, and all the vanities of modern days,--in this quarter, and in a street of this description, the business of the present chapter lies.

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Athos walked in the direction indicated, and reached the suburb situated at the opposite extremity of the city from that by which he and his friends had entered it.

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One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well.

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Holt's dwelling in one of the suburbs of Chicago had been destroyed by fire.

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The side kept hidden from the general notice, exhibited this same gentleman in the totally different character of a man of pleasure, with a villa in the suburbs which was not taken in his own name, and with a lady in the villa, who was not taken in his own name, either.

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