Definitions for: Suburb

[n] a residential district located on the outskirts of a city

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: suburban area, suburbia

See Also: addition, community, faubourg, fringe, Orly, outskirt, residential area, residential district, stockbroker belt, Wimbledon

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