Suburb
['sʌbɜːb] or ['sʌbɝb]
Definition
(noun.) a residential district located on the outskirts of a city.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment.
Checker: Lorenzo
Definition
n. the district which is near but beyond the walls of a city: the confines outskirts.—adj. Subur′ban situated or living in the suburbs.—n. one living in a suburb.—n. Subur′banism the state of being suburban.—adj. Suburbicā′rian being near the city esp. of the provinces of Italy forming the ancient diocese of Rome.
Checker: Phelps
Examples
- Mr. Jonas Oldacre is a well known resident of that suburb, where he has carried on his business as a builder for many years. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Both stood in a suburb of the city, which was still country-like, with groves and lawns, large gardens, and quiet streets. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- That one,--in Crampton, don't they call the suburb? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Paris, where it was spilled. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Defarge had described himself, that day, as the keeper of a wine-shop in the Saint Antoine suburb. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- This was followed by Alexander Selligue, who, in 1834, obtained a French patent, No. 9,800, and in 1842 produced water gas at Batignolles, a suburb of Paris. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Some weeks of spare time were at my disposal, before I entered on my functions by establishing myself in the suburbs of London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- We reached the turning in the road, and there, close before us, were the suburbs of Knowlesbury. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- On the other bank of the Bosporus is Scutari and other suburbs of Constantinople. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Nobody nowadays had Colonial houses except the millionaire grocers of the suburbs. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- We must go and visit our beautiful suburbs of London, she then thought. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It is said he found such a place in the ruined cloisters of the Monastery of St. Arbogast in the suburbs of Strasburg. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- She waited till the train had emerged from the tunnel and was racing between the ragged edges of the northern suburbs. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It does not require a particularly acute prophetic vision to see Flower Towns of Poured Houses going up in whole suburbs outside all our chief centres of population. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the booths of the market fairs at Paris and its suburbs (for example, at the Gingerbread Fair, at the Féte of St. Cloud, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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