Suburb

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              [London] could hardly have contained less than
              thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and
              the suburbs were very populous.       --Hallam.
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     2. Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment. "The
        suburbs . . . of sorrow." --Jer. Taylor.
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              The suburb of their straw-built citadel. --Milton.
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     {Suburb roister}, a rowdy; a loafer. [Obs.] --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  suburb
       n : a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
           [syn: {suburbia}, {suburban area}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "suburb":
     Stadt, banlieue, boom town, borough, bourg, burg, burgh, city,
     conurbation, exurb, exurbia, faubourg, ghost town, greater city,
     market town, megalopolis, metropolis, metropolitan area,
     municipality, outskirts, polis, spread city, suburbia, town,
     township, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs, ville