suburb
IPA: sˈʌbɝb
noun
- A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc.
- (by extension) The outer part; the environment.
- (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.
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Examples of "suburb" in Sentences
- The village forms part of the suburban.
- The following are the suburban towns of Coimbato.
- She again complains of the tedium of suburban life.
- I'm a top salesperson for suburbans in the Southland.
- The electorate covered a suburban part of the city of Auckland.
- The remainder of the platforms serve the Citytrain suburban network.
- Is it unfair to skew the case for a life of suburban domesticity this way
- The suburban city is situated in the eastern portion of the Megaris plain.
- The older suburban development of Meadowvale borders the area to the North.
- The station was intended to serve the growing suburban development in the area.
- To Carol and me, even the word suburb was exciting: it meant a city was attached to it.
- On the surface, Annie Powerss life in a wealthy Floridian suburb is happy and idyllic.
- The walk up to Atul Ruia's corporate office in Mahalaxmi, a central Mumbai suburb, is rather deceptive.
- As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home.
- When a certain suburb decides to resurface the street in front of your house, how much of that gas tax is the suburb getting and using on the project?
- From a “Mother Earth/Gaia” point of view building a city or suburb is far more destructive than building a mine, or building 50 mines for that matter.
- But the Cleveland suburb is 10 times the size of Mission Hills, has a far more diverse population, and for other reasons does not fit the pattern he describes.
- Internationally the term suburb conjures up images of a quiet, relatively unspoilt, less densely populated and predominantly residential community in the vicinity of a city.
- REVOLUTIONARY ROAD: Jason Statham drives an 18-wheeler full of nitro into the title suburb, blows everything to shit, and then spends 90 minutes hunting down absolutely everyone involved with the making of this film, beating them to death with TV trays.
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