suburb
noun
sub·urb
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Definition of suburb
1a
: an outlying part of a city or town
b
: a smaller community adjacent to or within commuting distance of a city
c
suburbs plural
: the residential area on the outskirts of a city or large town
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Other Words from suburb
suburban
\ sə-ˈbər-bən
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adjective or noun
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adjective or noun
suburbanite
\ sə-ˈbər-bə-ˌnīt
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noun
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noun
Examples of suburb in a Sentence
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Keanon Lowe grew up in the Portland suburb of Gresham, eight miles west of Parkrose, across the Willamette River. — Greg Bishop, SI.com, "‘Active Shooter!’ How Life Put Keanon Lowe Where He Was Supposed to Be," 29 Aug. 2019 In the Washington suburbs, Montgomery County — with Maryland’s largest school system — outperformed the state, with more than half of students reaching the benchmark on English exams. — Washington Post, "Maryland students show gains on state English tests, declines in math," 27 Aug. 2019 Costco opened its first warehouse club in China today (Aug. 27), in a suburb of Shanghai. — Echo Huang, Quartz, "Here are the crazy scenes from Costco’s opening day in China," 27 Aug. 2019 But the house, located at 9120 Performance Ct., backs up to a full-scale, 1.7-mile racetrack at the Villas at MotorSport Ranch subdivision in the suburb of Cresson. — Houston Chronicle, "North Texas home has a race track for a backyard, and six-car garage. Buy it for only $449,000," 22 Aug. 2019 Thousands have been following the life of one-in-million yellow cardinal nicknamed Mister Yellow since he was spotted in the Birmingham suburb of Alabaster in February 20198. — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, "Exceedingly Rare Albino Hummingbird Spotted in Alabama Backyard," 14 Aug. 2019 The forum came five years and a day after the shooting of Michael Brown Jr., an 18-year-old black man, by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo., setting off riots and a national reckoning about policing and bias. — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, "At gun control forum after El Paso rampage, 2020 Dems join Bloomberg boasting that NRA is on the run," 10 Aug. 2019 ProPublica Illinois found more than 40 guardianship cases fitting this profile filed between January 2018 and June 2019 in the Chicago suburbs of Lake County. — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, "Illinois Lawmakers Call Hearing to “Demand Answers” and Find Ways to Close a Loophole in College Financial Aid Scandal," 2 Aug. 2019 February 2012: The body of Tsutomu Omori, managing director of Olympus Medical Systems India, was found hanging in a park at a luxury high-rise apartment complex in a suburb of Gurugram. — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, "VG Siddhartha’s death puts the spotlight on a serious crisis among Indian entrepreneurs," 1 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'suburb.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for suburb
suburb
noun
English Language Learners Definition of suburb
: a town or other area where people live in houses near a larger city
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suburb
noun
sub·urb
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Kids Definition of suburb
: a smaller community close to a city
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