Suburbs

2 definitions found

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

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "suburbs":
     Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary,
     Little Italy, West End, West Side, alentours, ambience, ambit,
     barrio, black ghetto, blighted area, borderlands,
     business district, central city, circle, circuit, circumambiencies,
     circumjacencies, circumstances, city center, compass, context,


     core, downtown, entourage, environing circumstances, environment,
     environs, fringes, gestalt, ghetto, greenbelt, habitat, inner city,
     midtown, milieu, neighborhood, outposts, outskirts, perimeter,
     periphery, precincts, purlieus, red-light district,
     residential district, run-down neighborhood, shopping center,
     situation, skid road, skid row, slum, slums, suburbia,
     surroundings, tenderloin, tenement district, total environment,
     uptown, urban blight, vicinage, vicinity
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Suburbs
     the immediate vicinity of a city or town (Num. 35:3, 7; Ezek.
     45:2). In 2 Kings 23:11 the Hebrew word there used (parvarim)
     occurs nowhere else. The Revised Version renders it "precincts."
     The singular form of this Hebrew word (parvar) is supposed by
     some to be the same as Parbar (q.v.), which occurs twice in 1
     Chr. 26:18.