suburbnoun
uk/ˈsʌb.ɜːb/us/ˈsʌb.ɝːb/B2 [ C ] 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:
The company decided to relocate to the suburbs because the rent was much cheaper.
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- a leafy suburb
- a middle-class suburb of New York
- It's a suburb of Manchester really - I wouldn't call it Manchester proper.
- We live in a suburb of London.
- I grew up in a very middle-class suburb of Manchester.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Towns & regions: areas in towns & cities
- arrondissement
- backstreets
- barrio
- block
- botanic garden
- concrete jungle
- council estate
- dormitory suburb
- estate
- exurb
- ghetto
- inner city
- precinct
- red-light district
- slum
- suburbia
- the outskirts
- town
- trading estate
- warren
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