suburb

UK/ˈsʌbɜːb/US/ˈsʌbɝb/

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,109 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: suburbs

A suburb is the quiet housing area at the edge of a city. Live in the suburbs, a leafy suburb, a suburb of Leeds.

They grew with the railways and then with the car, since both let people live away from where they work. In Britain and America a suburb is usually residential and outside the centre; in Australia the word simply means any district of a city.

Definitions of suburb

1nounsuburbThe quiet housing area at the edge of a city.B2+
“They moved from the city centre to a quiet suburb with parks and good schools.”

suburb is a district.

Also accepted in games: suburbs

Where it comes from

Latin suburbium means under or near the city — sub, below, plus urbs, a city.

Old French
suburbe
English, today
suburb

From Old French suburbe, subburbe, from Latin suburbium. Displaced native underburg.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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suburb in the wild

A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area which is predominantly residential and within commuting distance of a large city.
Suburb
Due in part to historical trends such as white flight, some suburbs in the United States have a higher population and higher incomes than their nearby inner cities.
Suburb
Dianella is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
Dianella, Western Australia
Fairwood is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Fairwood, Gauteng
Hampstead Garden Suburb is a suburb of London, north of Hampstead, west of Highgate and east of Golders Green.
Hampstead Garden Suburb

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