suburb /subˈûrb/

1. A district or community adjoining a town or city, esp one having relatively low-density housing and open space as characteristic features
2. (in pl) the outskirts of a town
3. Outskirts generally

1. Suburban
2. Characteristic of the suburbs

suburban /səb-ûrˈbən/ adjective

1. Situated or living in the suburbs
2. Typical of the suburbs
3. Without the good qualities either of town or country
4. Provincial, narrow in outlook
5. Cosily traditional or unadventurous in tastes, as in the stereotypical suburbanite

Someone living in a suburb

suburˈbanism noun

The state of being suburban

suburˈbanite noun

A person who lives in the suburbs

suburbanity /sub-ər-banˈi-ti/ noun

1. Suburban quality
2. Suburbanism
3. A suburban place

suburbanizāˈtion or suburbanisāˈtion noun

suburˈbanize or suburˈbanise transitive verb

To make suburban

suburˈbia noun

(often used pejoratively) the suburban world

suburbicāˈrian adjective

Being near the city, esp of the dioceses and churches of the cardinal bishops in the suburbs of Rome

• metronomes
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• metroplex
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• metropolitan county
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• metropolitanise
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• metropolitanising
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• metropolitanized
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• metropolitanizing
• metropolitans
• metropolitical