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   What does suburban mean?

   • 近郊住宅區的, 城郊的, 平淡乏味的… 近郊住宅区的, 城郊的, 平淡乏味的… residencial, suburbana, de los suburbios… suburbano, suburbano/-na… Need a translator? 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….

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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 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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   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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   Why are suburbs called sub?

   • Given that most of the common words in our language beginning sub - tend to have meanings concerned with “beneath” (as in subterranean and submarine) or “less than” (as with subpar), you would be forgiven for assuming that the suburbs were so named because of their location below, or their status as less than, their urban counterparts.

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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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     SUBURB definition: 1. an area on the edge of a large town or...

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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]

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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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   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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   1. of, relating to, situated in, or inhabiting a suburb or the suburbs. 2. characteristic of or typifying a suburb or the suburbs. 3. narrow or unadventurous in outlook. noun. 4. another word for suburbanite. Collins English Dictionary.

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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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   1. a. : an outlying part of a city or town. b. : a smaller community adjacent to or within commuting distance of a city. c. suburbs plural : the residential area on the outskirts of a city or large town. 2. suburbs plural : the near vicinity : environs. suburban. sə-ˈbər-bən. adjective or noun. suburbanite. sə-ˈbər-bə-ˌnīt. noun. Did you know?