Definition of Suburb. Meaning of Suburb. Synonyms of Suburb

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Definition of Suburb

Suburb
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. --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.

Meaning of Suburb from wikipedia

- A suburb is a residential area or a mixed use area, either existing as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting...
- Inner suburb is a term used for a variety of suburban communities that are generally located very close to the centre of a large city (the inner city and...
- Perth is a suburb in Western Australia that includes both the central business district of the Perth metropolitan area, and a suburban area spreading north...
- A streetcar suburb is a residential community whose growth and development was strongly shaped by the use of streetcar lines as a primary means of transportation...
- northeastern U.S. usage), bedroom town or bedroom suburb (U.S. usage), a dormitory town, dormitory suburb, or less commonly a dormitory village (British...
- 121°27′58″E / 30.749°S 121.466°E / -30.749; 121.466 Kalgoorlie is the central suburb of the Kalgoorlie-Boulder metropolitan area in the Goldfields-Esperance...
- الجديدة‎‎, Maṣr El Gedīdah, [ˈmɑsˤɾ el ɡɪˈdidæ], lit. "New Egypt") was a suburb outside Cairo, Egypt, which has since merged with Cairo as a district of...
- An industrial suburb is a community, near a large city, with an industrial economy. These communities may be established as tax havens or as places where...
- This is a list of suburbs in the city of Cape Town, in South Africa. Each suburb is followed by its postcode. The first code is for street deliveries, the...
- Hampstead Garden Suburb is a suburb, north of Hampstead, west of Highgate and east of Golders Green. It is an example of early twentieth-century domestic...