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Suburban vs. Suburb — What's the Difference?

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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