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n. A usually residential area or community outlying a city.

n. The usually residential region around a major city; the environs.

n. the area on the periphery of a city or large town that falls between being truly part of the city, but is not countryside either.

n. any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.

n. 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.

n. Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment.

n. An outlying part of a city or town; a part outside of the city boundaries but adjoining them: often used in the plural to signify loosely some part near a city: as, a garden situated in the suburbs of London. The form suburbs was formerly often used as a singular.

n. The confines; the outskirts.

Suburban; suited to the suburbs, or to the less well regulated parts of a city.

n. a residential district located on the outskirts of a city

"To Carol and me, even the word suburb was exciting: it meant a city was attached to it."

community    residential district    residential area   

bedroom community    Orly    stockbroker belt    Wimbledon    clichy-la-garenne    addition    Sun City    faubourg    Clichy   

burb    suburbia    suburban    suburbian   

outskirt    skirt    faubourg   

neighborhoods    neighborhood    thoroughfare    hamlet    district    surrounding    countryside    province    locality    mansion