Hypertext Webster Gateway: "suburb"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
[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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
suburb
n : a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
[syn: {suburbia}, {suburban area}]
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