suburb
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- noun
- /ˈsʌbɜrb/
- That's a suburb of Dallas.
- move to the suburbs
- living in the suburbs
- cities and suburbs
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Watch on YouTubeI was just in a city, the suburb of Pittsburgh.
- I was just in a city, the suburb of Pittsburgh.
- But today I drove through the suburbs crying.
- He grew up in an upper class suburb that bordered on Detroit.
- He's born in, in a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- So I rented a cottage in, in Karen in a suburb in Nairobi, Kenya.
- One was from the suburbs in Dayton, OH.
- Loudoun County, Virginia, is this sort of Tony suburb outside of in Virginia.
- So I grew up as a white child in the white suburbs of apartheid South Africa.
- Hey, Theo, it's Kevin here from north suburbs in Chicago.
- My name is Ben, a white dude from the suburbs in New York City.
- Hi, this is Maria, a Patreon subscriber from the Philadelphia suburbs in Pennsylvania.
Examples
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Living all the way out here in the suburbs.
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Sasha is in the Chicago suburb of Skokie for a hearing.
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It's a little suburb of LA in the northern part.
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Start in a random suburb and walk for a mile.
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I grew up in Chicago, in the West suburbs of Chicago.
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We're looking for a place, maybe in the suburbs.
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And they lived in East St. Louis, an exclusive suburb.
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And we had in a leafy suburb in New Jersey.
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The town of Cicero, Illinois, is a suburb of Chicago, located on its western border.
Academic text (2008) -
The town of Cicero, Illinois, is a suburb of Chicago, located on its western border.
Synonyms
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The outer part of a town where it meets the countryside
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8.6
A place outside a city where many people live, with houses and parks
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Areas just outside a city where many people live
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2.7
A residential area near a city with family homes and quieter streets
Parts of a town or city that are far from the center
Antonyms
How Urban
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word suburb comes from the parts sub- meaning 'under' or 'near' and urb meaning 'city', the same urb you see in urban. So a suburb is a place of homes just outside a city.