Suburbs
['sʌbɝb]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Environs, outskirts, purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, border, limit, confines, FAUBOURGS.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Precincts, purlieus, outskirts, confines, environs
ANT:Centre, heart, citadel, acropolis
Editor: Patrick
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.
Edited by Guthrie
Examples
- 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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