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1. • • sub•urb (sub′ ûrb), n. a district lying immediately outside a city or town, esp. a smaller residential community. the suburbs, the area composed of such districts. an outlying part. Latin suburbium, equivalent. to sub- sub - + urb (s) city + -ium - ium
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   What does suburb mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! SUBURBAN definition: 1. relating to a suburb: 2. used to suggest that something is boring and has no excitement: 3…. Learn more.

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   What is a suburban area?

   • In Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, suburban areas (in the wider sense noted in the lead paragraph) have become formalized as geographic subdivisions of a city and are used by postal services in addressing. In rural areas in both countries, their equivalents are called localities (see suburbs and localities).

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   What does suburban mean?

   • suburban (plural suburbans) A person who lives in a suburb. An automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis. Borrowed from Latin suburbanus. suburban m or n (feminine singular suburbană, masculine plural suburbani, feminine and neuter plural suburbane)

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   Where do suburbs come from?

   • Suburbs tend to proliferate around cities that have an abundance of adjacent flat land. The English word is derived from the Old French subburbe, which is in turn derived from the Latin suburbium, formed from sub (meaning "under" or "below") and urbs ("city").

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   Do suburbs exist?

   • "According to the Federal Government, the Suburbs Don't Exist". Planetizen. ^ a b Jackson 1985. ^ Ruth McManus, and Philip J. Ethington (2007). "Suburbs in transition: new approaches to suburban history". Urban History. 34 (2): 317–337. doi: 10.1017/S096392680700466X. S2CID 146703204. ^ Adams, L. J. (1 September 2006).

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   What is a suburb in the UK?

   • In the United Kingdom suburbs are located between the exurbs and inner cities of a metropolitan area. The growth in the use of trains, and later cars and highways, increased the ease with which workers could have a job in the city while commuting in from the suburbs.

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   Sep 18, 2024 · suburban (comparative more suburban, superlative most suburban) Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city.

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   SUBURBAN definition: 1. relating to a suburb: 2. used to suggest that something is boring and has no excitement: 3…. Learn more.

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   1. Suburban means relating to a suburb. [...] 2. If you describe something as suburban, you mean that it is dull and conventional. [...] More. Synonyms of 'suburban' • residential, commuter, dormitory [...] • conventional, boring, conservative, dull [...] More. Collocations with 'suburban' suburban area suburban backyard suburban bungalow More.

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   Suburban means relating to a suburb. ...a comfortable suburban home. ...a suburban shopping centre in Sydney. If you describe something as suburban, you mean that it is dull and conventional. His clothes are conservative and suburban. ...ghastly good taste and suburban gentility.

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   Suburban villas, highway-ſide retreats, / That dread th' encroachment of our growing ſtreets, / Tight boxes, neatly ſaſh'd, and in a blaze / With all a July ſun's collected rays, / Delight the citizen, who gaſping there, / Breathes clouds of duſt and calls it country air.

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   noun [ C ] uk / ˈsʌbɜːb / us. Add to word list. an area on the edge of a large town or city where people who work in the town or city often live: The publishing company relocated out of central London to the suburbs. She opened a new location in the Dallas suburb of Richardson.

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    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. [1]