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      • an area outside a city but near it and consisting mainly of homes, sometimes also having stores and small businesses: [ pl ] Most of the people who live in the suburbs work in the city.
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  2. an area on the edge of a large town or city where people who work in the town or city often live: Box Hill is a suburb of Melbourne. We drove from middle-class suburbs to a very poor inner-city area. the suburbs [ plural ] the outer area of a town, rather than the shopping and business centre in the middle:

  3. 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.

  4. 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?

  5. Suburb definition: a district lying immediately outside a city or town, especially a smaller residential community.. See examples of SUBURB used in a sentence.

  6. an area on the edge of a large town or city where people who work in the town or city often live: Box Hill is a suburb of Melbourne. We drove from middle-class suburbs to a very poor inner-city area. the suburbs [ plural ] the outer area of a town, rather than the shopping and business center in the middle:

  7. 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. [...] 2. If you live in the suburbs, you live in an area of houses outside the centre of a large town or city. [...] More. Synonyms of 'suburb' • residential area, neighbourhood, outskirts, precincts [...] More.

  8. an area where people live that is outside the centre of a city. a suburb of London; a London suburb; in the suburbs They live in the suburbs.

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