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suburb |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Suburb \Sub"urb\, n. [L. suburbium sub under below, near + urbs a city. See {Urban}.] 1. 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; as a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris. ``In the suburbs of a town.'' --Chaucer. [London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous. --Hallam. 2. Hence the confines; the outer part the environment. ``The suburbs . . . of sorrow.'' --Jer. Taylor. The suburb of their straw-built citadel. --Milton. {Suburb roister}, a rowdy; a loafer. [Obs.] --Milton. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: suburb n : a residential district located on the outskirts of a city [syn: {suburbia}, {suburban area}]
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