suburb

CEFRB1

/ˈsʌbɝb/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An area outside the center of a city.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.

Examples

  • Helen and Kathy rented an apartment in a suburb of Tokyo.

  • I have to commute all the way from a distant suburb.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The outer part; the environment.

  2. 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.

More examples

In context

  • [London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.

  • Canton is by no means the only great city in the province. Fo-chan, a kind of suburb to it, about twelve miles distant, has been represented as almost as large.

  • the suburbs […] of sorrow

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Origin

noun

From Old French suburbe, subburbe, from Latin suburbium (from sub- (“under-”) + urbs (“city”)). Displaced native Old English underburg (literally “underborough”).