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suburbs

UK/ˈsʌbɜːbz/US/ˈsʌbɝbz/

suburbs noun: the populated area surrounding a city. Also the plural of suburb.

Noun

suburbs

  1. (plural, plural-only, urban studies) The populated area surrounding a city.
    • Once beyond the limits of the suburbs, when desert darkness of sparse roadlights and flat straight roads took over ... we became silent.1999, Jennifer Robin, Bouzi, page 92

Also used as

suburbs is also the plural of suburb.

suburbs meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Telugu

suburbs in Hindi

उपनगर, उपनगरों, उपनगरें

suburbs in Marathi

उपनगर, उपनगरे

suburbs in Urdu

مضافات

suburbs in Telugu

శివారు ప్రాంతాలు, ఉపనగరాలు
More languagesFewer languages
suburbs in Malayalam
പ്രാന്തപ്രദേശങ്ങൾ, ഉപനഗരങ്ങൾ
suburbs in Kannada
ಉಪನಗರಗಳು, ಉಪನಗರಗಳ
suburbs in Punjabi
ਉਪਨਗਰ, ਉਪਨਗਰਾਂ, ਉਪਨਗਰੀਆ
suburbs in Gujarati
ઉપનગરો
suburbs in Nepali
उपनगरहरू, उपनगर, उपनगरीहरू

Words formed from suburbs

Phrases with suburbs

Questions about suburbs

What does suburbs mean?
Suburbs means the populated area surrounding a city.
What is suburbs in Hindi?
Suburbs in Hindi is उपनगर, उपनगरों, उपनगरें. See Suburbs meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is suburbs?
Suburbs is a noun.
How do you pronounce suburbs?
Suburbs is pronounced /ˈsʌbɝbz/ (US).

Words near suburbs in the dictionary

  1. suburbians
  2. suburbias
  3. suburbicarian
  4. suburbicary
  5. suburblike
  6. suburbs
  7. suburceolate
  8. suburethral
  9. suburethrally
  10. suburothelial
  11. suburothelially

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suburbs (page history and authors); suburbs (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); suburbs (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); suburbs (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); suburbs (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); suburbs (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); suburbs (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); suburbs (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); suburbs (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); suburbs (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.

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