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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Suburb  \Sub"urb\,  n.  [L.  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  confines  of  any  city  or  large  town;  as  a 
  house  stands  in  the  suburbs;  a  garden  situated  in  the 
  suburbs  of  Paris.  ``In  the  suburbs  of  a  town.''  --Chaucer. 
 
  [London]  could  hardly  have  contained  less  than 
  thirty  or  forty  thousand  souls  within  its  walls;  and 
  the  suburbs  were  very  populous.  --Hallam. 
 
  2.  Hence  the  confines;  the  outer  part  the  environment. 
  ``The  suburbs  .  .  .  of  sorrow.''  --Jer.  Taylor. 
 
  The  suburb  of  their  straw-built  citadel.  --Milton. 
 
  {Suburb  roister},  a  rowdy;  a  loafer.  [Obs.]  --Milton. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  suburb 
  n  :  a  residential  district  located  on  the  outskirts  of  a  city 
  [syn:  {suburbia},  {suburban  area}] 




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