suburb
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ɜrb noun
1.
a district lying immediately outside a city or town, especially a smaller residential community.
2.
the suburbs, the area composed of such districts.
3.
an outlying part.
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| —n | |
| a residential district situated on the outskirts of a city or town | |
| [C14: from Latin suburbium, from sub- close to + urbs a city] | |
| 'suburbed | |
| —adj | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
suburb
c.1340 (implied in suburban), "residential area outside a town or city," from O.Fr. suburbe, from L. suburbium "an outlying part of a city," from sub "below, near" + urbs (gen. urbis) "city." Close to crowds but just beyond the reach of municipal jurisdiction, suburbs in 17c., especially those of London,
had a sense of "inferior, debased, and licentious habits or life" (e.g. suburban sinner, slang for "loose woman, prostitute"). By 1817, the tinge had shifted to "inferior manners and narrow views." Compare also Fr. equivalent faubourg. Suburbanite formed 1890; suburbia first attested 1896, probably influenced by utopia, originally in England with ref. to London.
"[T]he growth of the metropolis throws vast numbers of people into distant dormitories where ... life is carried on without the discipline of rural occupations and without the cultural resources that the Central District of the city still retains." [Lewis Mumford, 1922]
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Example sentences
For example, if you live in a suburb, you could have students research historical sites in the city.
Instead, they've decided to stay put and renovate their city apartment or fix up their small house in an older, closer-in suburb.
We need to find ways to make this argument stick in every city, suburb and rural town.
First as a streetcar suburb and later an automobile-based suburb, the community thrived.
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