Suburban vs. Suburb — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Suburban and Suburb
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Suburban
Of or characteristic of a suburb
Suburban life
Suburb
A suburb (or suburban area or suburbia) is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city/urban area, or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of one. Suburbs might have their own political or legal jurisdiction, especially in the United States, but this is not always the case, especially in the United Kingdom where most suburbs are located within the administrative boundaries of cities.
Suburban
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a suburb.
Suburb
An outlying district of a city, especially a residential one
A highly respectable suburb of Chicago
A working-class suburb
Life is much better in the suburbs
Suburban
Located or residing in a suburb.
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Suburb
A usually residential area or community outlying a city.
Suburban
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the culture, customs, and manners typical of life in the suburbs.
Suburb
Suburbs The usually residential region around a major city; the environs.
Suburban
A suburbanite.
Suburb
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.
Suburban
Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city.
Suburb
(by extension) The outer part; the environment.
Suburban
A person who lives in a suburb.
Suburb
Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.
Suburban
An automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis.
Suburb
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.
[London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.
Suburban
Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city.
Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, . . . Delight the citizen.
Suburb
Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment.
The suburb of their straw-built citadel.
Suburban
One who dwells in the suburbs.
Suburb
A residential district located on the outskirts of a city
Suburban
Relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs;
Surburban population
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