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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUB'URB
SUBURB'AN, a. [L. suburbanus. See Suburbs.] Inhabiting or being in the suburbs of a city.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English suburbe, from Anglo-French, from Latin suburbium, from sub- near + urbs city — more at sub- Date: 14th century 1. a. an outlying part of a city or town b. a smaller community adjacent to or within commuting distance of a city c. plural the residential area on the outskirts of a city or large town 2. plural the near vicinity ; environs • suburban adjective or noun • suburbanite noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. an outlying district of a city, esp. residential. Etymology: ME f. OF suburbe or L suburbium (as SUB-, urbs urbis city)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. [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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(suburbs) 1. A suburb of a city or large town is a smaller area which is part of the city or large town but is outside its centre. Anna was born in 1923 in Ardwick, a suburb of Manchester. N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n 2. If you live in the suburbs, you live in an area of houses outside the centre of a large town or city. His family lived in the suburbs. ...Bombay's suburbs. N-PLURAL: oft in the N

Moby Thesaurus

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