in the suburbs
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1.0
- idiom
- Living in the suburbs allows families to have more space and a yard for the kids.
- live in the suburbs
- located in the suburbs
- a house in the suburbs
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Watch on YouTubeSo John and Joyce Sheridan lived in the suburbs outside of Princeton.
- So John and Joyce Sheridan lived in the suburbs outside of Princeton.
- I grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta, GA.
- And are you living in the suburbs of Connecticut?
- And I just want to point out for the listener that this is in the suburbs.
- But where they tapped into voters was primarily Republican voters was in the suburbs.
- And for a lot of Americans, one of those things is owning a big house in the suburbs.
- So I grew up in the suburbs of Maryland to two very loving Chinese immigrant parents.
- And then when I called the last place, the guy was like, we don't sell those kinds of wines in the suburbs.
- Now my eyesight is pretty good and OK yeah, I was in the suburbs, but I still did have quite a bit of light pollution around.
- Black kids who go to school in the suburbs scored just as high, if not higher than many white kids on the Sats.
- This is the dumb shit that this mega church culture breeds, whether it's in rural America or in the cities or in the suburbs.
- My dad grew up in a more privileged situation in the suburb of Arlington Heights.
- Our Crooked Hearts is the same, except it takes place in the suburbs of, I assume, America.
Examples
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Living in the suburbs of London.
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So I'm a kid growing up in the suburbs of Washington, DC, starting to fall in love with the sport of swimming.
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We're looking for a place, maybe in the suburbs.
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Girl, we grew up in the suburbs.
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Bought this great big house out in the suburbs.
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You live in the suburbs.
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And are you living in the suburbs of Connecticut?
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Michael Thomas grew up in Detroit and lives in the suburbs with his wife and daughter.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta, GA.
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So I grew up in the suburbs of Maryland to two very loving Chinese immigrant parents.
Synonyms
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1.8
An area in a town or city where people live near each other
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2.7
An area just outside a city with many houses where people live
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3.7
The area near a place, for example shops or houses
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3.0
Parts of a town or city that are far from the center
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4.2
Areas just outside a city where many people live
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2.1
Part of a town where people live in houses or apartments
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8.6
A place outside a city where many people live, with houses and parks
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2.7
A residential area near a city with family homes and quieter streets
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3.1
An area of a town or city with mostly houses and apartments
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9.9
A neighborhood outside the old part of a city, often in New Orleans
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7.7
A small town near a city where people live quietly
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Morphology
The meaning 'in the residential areas situated outside the center of a city' is directly and compositionally derived from 'in' (location) + 'the' (definite article) + 'suburbs' (residential areas on a city's edge). This standard preposition + noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows ordinary locative composition, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
In the suburbs comes from the simple image of houses and quiet streets built just outside the busy town centre, where people lived near but outside the city. That's why in the suburbs means 'in the residential area outside the city'.