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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.
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[London] could hardly have contained less than
thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and
the suburbs were very populous. --Hallam.
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2. Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment. "The
suburbs . . . of sorrow." --Jer. Taylor.
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The suburb of their straw-built citadel. --Milton.
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{Suburb roister}, a rowdy; a loafer. [Obs.] --Milton.
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