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suburbs

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈsʌbɜːbz//
  • United States//ˈsʌbɝbz//

The populated area surrounding a city.

noun

  1. 1

    The populated area surrounding a city.

    Once beyond the limits of the suburbs, when desert darkness of sparse roadlights and flat straight roads took over ... we became silent.

  2. 2

    Also a form of suburbplural of suburb

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).