SUBURB


Meaning of SUBURB in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ sʌbɜ:(r)b ]

( suburbs)

1.

A suburb of a city or large town is a smaller area which is part of the city or large town but is outside its centre.

Anna was born in 1923 in Ardwick, a suburb of Manchester.

N-COUNT : usu with supp , oft N of n

2.

If you live in the suburbs , you live in an area of houses outside the centre of a large town or city.

His family lived in the suburbs.

...Bombay’s suburbs.

N-PLURAL : oft in the N

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