suburb
UK/ˈsʌbɜːb/US/ˈsʌbɝb/
suburb noun: 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.
Noun
suburb (plural suburbs)
- 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.
- And the Lord spake vnto Moses in the plaines of Moab by Iordane, neere Iericho, saying,
Command the children of Israel, that they giue vnto the Leuites of the inheritance of their possession, cities to dwell in: and yee shall giue also vnto the Leuites suburbs for the cities round about them.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 35:1–2 - These two circumstances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much less frequented track; and after riding full six miles, instead of arriving at the stately spires of Coventry, they found themselves still in a very dirty lane, where they saw no...1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
- And the Lord spake vnto Moses in the plaines of Moab by Iordane, neere Iericho, saying,
- The outer part; the environment.
- the suburbs […] of sorrow1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC
- the suburb of their straw-built citadel1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
- Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.
suburb meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
suburb in Hindi
- area on the periphery of a city or large town
- उपनगर upangar
suburb in Tamil
- புற நகர், புறநகர்
suburb in Urdu
- area on the periphery of a city or large town
- مُضافات muzāfāt
suburb in Bengali
- area on the periphery of a city or large town
- উপনগর uponogor, শহরতলি śohortoli
More languagesFewer languages
- suburb in Telugu
- పేట pēṭa, శాఖానగరము śākhānagaramu
- suburb in Malayalam
- പട്ടണപ്രാന്തം, നഗരപരിസരം, അതിർത്തി
- suburb in Kannada
- ಉಪನಗರ, ಶಾಖಾನಗರ, ಹೊರವಲಯ, ಹೊರಗೇರಿ
- suburb in Gujarati
- પરું parũ
- suburb in Sanskrit
- गृह्य gṛhya
- suburb in Tagalog
- naik, kanugnog
- suburb in Arabic
- ضَاحِيَة ḍāḥiya, حَيّ ḥayy
- suburb in Thai
- ชานเมือง chaan-mʉʉang
- suburb in Vietnamese
- vùng ven đô, ngoại thành, ngoại ô, phường
- suburb in Myanmar
- ဆင်ခြေဖုံး hcanghkrehpum:
Examples of suburb in a sentence
- [London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.1818, Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages:
- Fo-chan, a kind of suburb to it, about twelve miles distant, has been represented as almost as large.1843, “Geographical Description of the Chinese Provinces.”, in An Historical and Descriptive Account of China, 3rd edition, volume III...
- At the mountain’s base is the leafy suburb of Kowloon Tong.2007 June 24, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “Hong Kong Is Reshaped by Mainlanders”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...
Forms of suburb
| plural | suburbs |
|---|
Origin of suburb
From Old French suburbe, subburbe, from Latin suburbium (from sub- (“under-”) + urbs (“city”)). Displaced native Old English underburg (literally “underborough”).
Words formed from suburb
Questions about suburb
- What does suburb mean?
- Suburb means 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.
- What is suburb in Hindi?
- Suburb in Hindi is उपनगर (upangar). See Suburb meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use suburb in a sentence?
- [London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.
- What part of speech is suburb?
- Suburb is a noun.
- How do you pronounce suburb?
- Suburb is pronounced /ˈsʌbɝb/ (US).
- What is the plural of suburb?
- The plural of suburb is suburbs.
Words near suburb in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: suburb (page history and authors); suburb (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); పేట (Telugu) (page history and authors); suburb (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); suburb (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); પરું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); गृह्य (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-au-suburb.ogg.
Cite this entry: “suburb.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/suburb. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.