Category:Suburb

Sub"urb, n. Etym: [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. [london] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty Thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous. Hallam.

2. Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment. "the suburbs . . . of sorrow." Jer. Taylor. The suburb of their straw-built citadel. Milton. Suburb roister, a rowdy; a loafer. [obs.] Milton.