Suburb

n.	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. [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 suburb of their straw-built citadel. - Milton. Suburb roister a rowdy; a loafer. - Milton.

Noun

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suburb - a residential district located on the outskirts of a city Synonyms: suburban area, suburbia

Stadt, banlieue, boom town, borough, bourg, burg, burgh, city, conurbation, exurb, exurbia, faubourg, ghost town, greater city, market town, megalopolis, metropolis, metropolitan area, municipality, outskirts, polis, spread city, suburbia, town, township, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs, ville

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