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My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.
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Meaning of "suburb" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SUBURB

From Latin suburbium, from sub- close to + urbs a city.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SUBURB

suburb  [ˈsʌbɜːb] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUBURB

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Suburb is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SUBURB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

suburb

Suburb

A suburb is a residential area or a mixed use area, either existing as part of a city or urban area, or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city. Some suburbs have a degree of administrative autonomy, and most have lower population densities than inner city neighborhoods. Suburbs first emerged on a large scale in the 19th and 20th centuries as a result of improved rail and road transport, which led to an increase in commuting. Suburbs tend to proliferate around cities that have an abundance of adjacent flat land.

Definition of suburb in the English dictionary

The definition of suburb in the dictionary is a residential district situated on the outskirts of a city or town.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUBURB


acerb
əˈsɜːb
adverb
ˈædˌvɜːb
blurb
blɜːb
boomburb
ˈbuːmbɜːb
burb
bɜːb
curb
kɜːb
disturb
dɪˈstɜːb
exurb
ˈɛksɜːb
herb
hɜːb
kerb
kɜːb
Loeb
lɜːb
perturb
pəˈtɜːb
proverb
ˈprɒvɜːb
refurb
ˈriːˌfɜːb
reverb
ˈriːvɜːb
Serb
sɜːb
superb
sʊˈpɜːb
urb
ɜːb
verb
vɜːb
willowherb
ˈwɪləʊˌhɜːb

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUBURB

subtunic
subtype
subtypical
subucula
subulate
subumbrella
subumbrellar
subungulate
subunit
suburban
suburbanisation
suburbanise
suburbanism
suburbanite
suburbanization
suburbanize
suburbed
suburbia
suburbicarian
subursine

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUBURB

absorb
adsorb
auxiliary verb
barb
bedroom suburb
bicarb
carb
courb
dorb
forb
garb
garden suburb
high-carb
orb
phrasal verb
rhubarb
slurb
sorb
uncurb
wellcurb

Synonyms and antonyms of suburb in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SUBURB»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «suburb» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of suburb

Translation of «suburb» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUBURB

Find out the translation of suburb to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of suburb from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «suburb» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

郊区
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

barrio residencial
570 millions of speakers

English

suburb
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उपनगर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ضَاحِيَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пригород
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

subúrbio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শহরতলী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

banlieue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pinggir bandar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vorort
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

郊外
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

교외
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Suburb
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngoại ô
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புறநகர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उपनगर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kenar mahalle
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sobborgo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przedmieście
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

околиці
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

suburbie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προάστιο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voorstad
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förort
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forstad
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of suburb

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBURB»

The term «suburb» is very widely used and occupies the 13.363 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBURB» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «suburb» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «suburb» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about suburb

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10 QUOTES WITH «SUBURB»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word suburb.
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J. G. Ballard
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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Richie Benaud
Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade above the beach. It is a suburb for people who appreciate those aspects of life.
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Chris Bohjalian
When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.
4
Michael Bond
After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen to radio programmes all over the world.
5
Katherine Dunn
But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.
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Jason Epstein
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.
7
Andrew J. Feustel
I grew up in Lake Orion, Mich. What was best about Lake Orion where, where we grew up was it was a suburb of Detroit but had a lot of open space around.
8
David Gross
My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.
9
Rachael Harris
I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
10
Bobby Heenan
Hawaii's the 50th state? I thought it was a suburb of Guam.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBURB»

Discover the use of suburb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to suburb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Suburb Reader
This work collects the best writings on such suburbs and includes scholarly essays, documents, and magazine and newspaper articles.
Becky M. Nicolaides, Andrew Wiese, 2006
2
The City Kid & the Suburb Kid
Two cousins, one from the city and one from the suburbs, spend a day and a night together at each other's house, and decide that each likes his own home better.
Deb Pilutti, 2008
3
A Suburb
Explains what suburbs are and describes some aspects of life in suburbs.
Valerie Bodden, 2007
4
Neighbourhood and Society: A London Suburb in the ...
This book is a pioneering social and economic study of a London suburban parish in the seventeenth century, which sheds new light on the important but relatively neglected topic of London's social history.
Jeremy Boulton, 2005
5
A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb
Focusing on the social dissatisfaction with the modern American suburb, Langdon interviewed designers, developers, planners and residents across the USA to see how suburbs are being built.
Philip Langdon, 1997
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The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving
Consider some of the forces at work: The nuclear family is no more: Our marriage and birth rates are steadily declining, while the single-person households are on the rise.
Leigh Gallagher, 2013
7
Living in a Suburb
Simple text and photographs describe life in suburbs including suburban neighborhoods, schools, and shops.
Lisa Trumbauer, Gail Saunders-Smith, 2005
8
Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of ...
The study reported in this book--jointly sponsored by the community and the school district in Shaker Heights, Ohio--focuses on the academic performance of Black American students.
John U. Ogbu, 2003
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Death by Suburb
Goetz weaves sociology studies, his own experiences, current events, wisdom of the spiritual masters, and a little humor to equip spiritual suburbanites for how to relate to God amidst Starbucks, strip–malls, and perfect lawns.
Dave L. Goetz, 2009
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Old Brooklyn Heights: New York's First Suburb : Including ...
Authoritative street-by-street architectural guide to over 600 houses, buildings in city's first Historic District. 88 illus.
Clay Lancaster, Edmund Vincent Gillon, 1979

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBURB»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term suburb is used in the context of the following news items.
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Crews contained gas spill in Omaha suburb, official says
BENNINGTON — Crews have contained a gasoline spill estimated at 1,000 gallons from a truck filling up a tank at a convenience store in the northwest Omaha ... «Lincoln Journal Star, Jul 15»
2
Appeals court stalls prosecution of police in suburb
CLEVELAND — The prosecution of five white police supervisors in a predominantly black suburb for failing to stop a car chase that ended with two unarmed ... «Columbus Dispatch, Jul 15»
3
Ear-ringing attempt: Detroit suburb of Royal Oak seeks to set record …
ROYAL OAK, Mich. – The Detroit suburb of Royal Oak wants to hear a lot more cowbell. The Daily Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1HRTkuH ) the "more cowbell" line ... «Fox News, Jul 15»
4
Tragedies tie survivors across Detroit city-suburb border
Paige was white and from the affluent Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Farms. Christina was black and from a poorer area in the city of Detroit. But Paige's ... «U.S. News & World Report, Jul 15»
5
2 dead after shooting in Kansas City suburb
OVERLAND PARK — Police in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park say two people have died in a shooting. Officers who responded to the scene Tuesday ... «Topeka Capital Journal, Jul 15»
6
White Cleveland police supervisors' trial moving to black suburb
CLEVELAND — The misdemeanor trial for five white Cleveland police supervisors accused of failing to control a high-speed car chase that led to two unarmed ... «Columbus Dispatch, Jun 15»
7
Sudbury Ranked No. 1 Suburb in Mass. to Raise Children
Niche, which ranks U.S. communities and colleges, this week released its ”2015 Best Suburbs to Raise a Family in Massachusetts.” The rankings were based on ... «Patch.com, Jun 15»
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Girl, 2, found dead in woods by dog walker in Pittsburgh suburb
SWISSVALE, Pa. (AP) — Police say a dog walker has found the body of a 2-year-old girl in the woods of a Pittsburgh suburb. The Allegheny County medical ... «abc27, Jun 15»
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St. Louis suburb settles suit over municipal court bonds
(AP) _ The St. Louis suburb of Velda City no longer can jail people in lieu of cash bail for municipal infractions under a federal court settlement over the bond ... «fox2now.com, Jun 15»
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Really Buff Kangaroo Moves Into Brisbane Suburb, Flaunts Bulging …
An unusually buff kangaroo has made a suburb of Brisbane, Australia, his new home, and he's reportedly been intimidating and astounding his human ... «Huffington Post, May 15»

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