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noun

a district lying immediately outside a city or town, especially a smaller residential community.

the suburbs, the area composed of such districts.

an outlying part.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin suburbium, equivalent to sub- sub- + urb(s) city + -ium -ium

Related forms

sub·urbed, adjective

un·sub·urbed, adjective

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But previous generations saw their trek to the suburbs as a move up to a better lifeMany.

The better suburban schools will be in the more expensive suburbs.

Powerful economic logic underpins the suburbs and car culture.

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But previous generations saw their trek to the suburbs as a move up to a better lifeMany.

The better suburban schools will be in the more expensive suburbs.

Powerful economic logic underpins the suburbs and car culture.

Students may already be familiar with old cities and new suburbs.

Suburbs exist because fuel and cars are cheap and land in cities is expensive.

Consumer habits changed due to migration to the suburbs and increasing traffic congestion.

Hell, it's the only way to get around in the suburbs since walking really isn't an option.

The suburbs often begin to look a lot more attractive to certain city dwellers after they have children.

Easier to move to the suburbs where the schools are good.

Suburbs are constantly springing up without a nearby interstate.

Suburbs are smaller urban areas that surround cities.

If consumers paid the full cost of both the fuel and the car then suburbs would not.

Cities will get bigger, of course, and suburbs will grow but will need to become more environmentally sustainable.

Three days later, it was installed in a military cemetery in the suburbs.

Louis and several western suburbs are battling over a new.

Otherwise, you'll probably find adequate housing in many of the surrounding suburbs.

For decades cities and suburbs have competed for jobs, residents and state and federal aid to ill effect.

Most suburbs are less densely populated than cities.

Light and commuter rail to prominent suburbs have the potential to radically change the city.

Homes in the suburbs are better maintained than any state facility.

As aquifers are drained, more suburbs beyond the basin will ask for it.

Often found in cities and suburbs as well as in rural areas.

When the family returned to the suburbs two days later, the cesium clocks were off by the precise amount relativity predicted.

The impact of that: thousands of jobs and millions in sales tax and property tax revenues go to the suburbs instead.

Encroaching suburbs and increasing tourism have pushed up land prices, and declining commodity prices have cut into incomes.

Within the last decade, the town has experienced a huge influx of people from the central city and other suburbs.

The image of paratroopers floating down over the suburbs is, also, surprisingly powerful.

The city's outer suburbs are eerily quiet, thanks to the preponderance of unsold and foreclosed homes.

And behind the developer comes the family in search of a home in the suburbs.

Many of the government employees are expected to settle in the suburbs.

And it caused the gutting of inner cities as people moved to suburbs and commuted over highways.

It also asks them to think about how people living in cities and suburbs must plan ahead.

Mirroring trends seen elsewhere around the world, the city's inner-ring suburbs have been getting more diverse.

Overly aggressive macaques have become a major nuisance in several national parks and even in some city suburbs.

Supporters also hope expanded rural broadband access will stop the steady loss of population to cities and suburbs.

As suburbs expand, residents should learn to tell the difference between predators and prey.

One of its suburbs contains a lush campus with a collection of futuristic buildings:.

They frequently stray into towns and suburbs in search of food.

Some papers even had the nerve to refuse delivery to distant suburbs.

All those panels could fit on less than a quarter of the roof and pavement space in cities and suburbs.

The reason, revealed by satellite, is that the suburbs have more backyard ponds and puddles.

Since then, the city and its surrounding suburbs have grown exponentially.

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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,

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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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Easton

Bible Dictionary

Suburbs definition

the immediate vicinity of a city or town (Num. 35:3, 7; Ezek. 45:2). In 2 Kings 23:11 the Hebrew word there used (parvarim) occurs nowhere else. The Revised Version renders it "precincts." The singular form of this Hebrew word (parvar) is supposed by some to be the same as Parbar (q.v.), which occurs twice in 1 Chr. 26:18.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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"The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one's way to where the country is."

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