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suburb 音標拼音: [s'ʌbɚb] n. 市郊,郊區,邊緣 市郊,郊區,邊緣 suburb n 1: a residential district located on the outskirts of a city [ synonym: { suburb}, { suburbia}, { suburban area}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] [ London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous. -- Hallam. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment. " The suburbs . . . of sorrow." -- Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] The suburb of their straw- built citadel. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] { Suburb roister}, a rowdy; a loafer. [ Obs.] -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 29 Moby Thesaurus words for " suburb": Stadt, banlieue, boom town, borough, bourg, burg, burgh, city, conurbation, exurb, exurbia, faubourg, ghost town, greater city, market town, megalopolis, metropolis, metropolitan area, municipality, outskirts, polis, spread city, suburbia, town, township, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs, ville
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