suburban area

1. 1.

   a residential district located on the outskirts of a city

   Synonymssuburbsuburbia

   Broaderresidential district

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   Part ofoutskirt

Questions about suburban area

What does suburban area mean?

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

What is another word for suburban area?

Close synonyms include suburb, suburbia. 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 suburban area a common word?

suburban area is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.