different between suburban vs suburb

English

Etymology

From Latin suburbanus, from prefix sub- (“under”) + urbs (“city”) + -anus (“adjective suffix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??b??(?)b?n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)b?n

Adjective

suburban (comparative more suburban, superlative most suburban)

1. Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city.
   • 1779, William Cowper, Retirement

     Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, […] delight the citizen.

Antonyms

• nonsuburban

Translations

Noun

suburban (plural suburbans)

1. A person who lives in a suburb.
2. An automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis.

Related terms

• suburb
• periphery
• environs

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.bur?ban/

Etymology

From Latin suburbanus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?su.bur?ban/

Adjective

suburban m or n (feminine singular suburban?, masculine plural suburbani, feminine and neuter plural suburbane)

1. suburban

Related terms

• suburbie

English

Etymology

From Old French suburbe, subburbe, from Latin suburbium, from sub- + urbs (“city”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?b?b/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?b??b/

Noun

suburb (plural suburbs)

1. A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc.

   Coordinate term: exurb

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

     These two circumstances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much less frequented track; and after riding full six miles, instead of arriving at the stately spires of Coventry, they found themselves still in a very dirty lane, where they saw no symptoms of approaching the suburbs of a large city.

   • 1818, Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages

     [London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.

2. (by extension) The outer part; the environment.
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     the suburbs […] of sorrow
3. (Australia, New Zealand) Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.

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