suburb

1. 1.

   a residential district located on the outskirts of a city

   Synonymssuburbiasuburban area

   Broaderresidential district

   Narroweradditionbedroom communityfaubourgstockbroker beltWimbledonClichyOrlySun City

   Part ofoutskirt

Other forms of suburb

plural

suburbs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about suburb

What does suburb mean?

suburb means "a residential district located on the outskirts of a city".

How many syllables are in suburb?

suburb has 2 syllables: sub-urb. The stress falls on "sub". In IPA it is /ˈsʌbɚb/.

What is another word for suburb?

Close synonyms include suburbia, suburban area. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is suburb a common word?

suburb is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.