Look up: suburb

1. Suburb
   outlying residential part of a city
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2. suburb
   [n] - a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
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3. suburb
   'suburbia' generally refers to the outer residential parts of a continuously built-up city; a 'suburb' is a socially homogeneous district within that area Category: Building industry
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4. Suburb
   Sub'urb noun [ Latin suburbium ; sub under, below, near + urbs a city. See Urban .] 1. 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 conf...
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5. suburb
   suburbia noun a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
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6. Suburb
   • (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.
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7. suburb
   (from the article `United States`) ...and fragmented the American city, which spread over surrounding rural lands. Older, formerly autonomous towns grew swiftly. Many towns became ... ...new building materials, the automobile, and rising levels of per capita personal income had led to some relaxation of urban concentration. City ... ...
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8. suburb
   suburb 1. A district lying immediately outside a city or town; especially, a smaller residential community. 2. Usually a residential region around a major city; the environs.
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9. Suburb
   The word suburb mostly refers to a residential area, either existing as part of a city (as in Australia and New Zealand) or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city (as in the United States and Canada). Some suburbs have a degree of administrative autonomy, and most h...
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10. suburb
    suburb, a community in an outlying section of a city or, more commonly, a nearby, politically separate municipality with social and economic ties to the central city. In the 20th cent., particularly in the United States, population growth in urban areas has spilled increasingly outside the city limi...
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11. suburb
    Outer part of an urban area. Suburbs generally consist of residential housing and shops of a low order (newsagent, small supermarket), which act as central places for the local community. Often, suburbs are the most recent growth of an urban area, and their end marks the urban fringe. Their growth may result in urban sprawl. Increasingly, out-o...
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12. Suburb
    Municipalities that are not town centres are suburbs of the urban unit.
    Found on http://www.insee.fr/en/methodes/default.