Definition of Suburb

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Suburb

An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris.

Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment.

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Suburb Quotations

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
J. G. Ballard

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
Barbara Jordan

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
Olivier Martinez

But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.
Katherine Dunn

I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.
Douglas Wood

Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.
John Pople

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
Ed McMahon

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.
Peter Jurasik

Hawaii's the 50th state? I thought it was a suburb of Guam.
Bobby Heenan

If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.
Lewis H. Lapham

Suburb Translations

suburb in Afrikaans is voorstad
suburb in Danish is forstad
suburb in Dutch is voorstad
suburb in French is banlieue, faubourg
suburb in German is Vorstadt
suburb in Italian is sobborgo
suburb in Spanish is suburbio

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