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The synonyms of “Suburb” are: suburbia, dormitory area, dormitory town, commuter belt, conurbation
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “suburb” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| commuter belt | Someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city. |
| conurbation | An aggregation or continuous network of urban communities. The major conurbations of London and Birmingham. |
| dormitory area | A college or university building containing living quarters for students. |
| dormitory town | A large sleeping room containing several beds. |
| suburbia | Suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture. The sprawl of suburbia into the surrounding countryside. |
| borough | An administrative division of London. |
| bucolic | Idyllically rustic. The church is lovely for its bucolic setting. |
| capital | A book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories. A conflict of interest between capital and labour. |
| city | A town created a city by charter and usually containing a cathedral. The city voted for Republicans in 1994. |
| civic | Of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals. A meeting of civic and business leaders. |
| commune | A territorial division similar to a French commune in other countries. He seemed to commune with nature. |
| community | Agreement as to goals. A rural community. |
| countryside | The inhabitants of countryside areas. They explored the surrounding countryside. |
| county | A sporting team playing for a county. Administration at county level. |
| depopulate | Reduce in population. The disease could depopulate a town the size of Bournemouth. |
| district | An area of a country or city, especially one characterized by a particular feature or activity. A district health authority. |
| emigrant | A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another. Emigrant workers. |
| ghetto | Any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping. The relative security of the gay ghetto. |
| hamlet | A community of people smaller than a village. |
| local | A local train or bus service. The local seemed to take forever to get to New York. |
| metropolitan | Relating to or denoting a metropolitan or his see. Metropolitan Spain. |
| municipal | Relating or belonging to or characteristic of a municipality. International law only authorizes a belligerent to punish a spy under its municipal law. |
| municipality | The governing body of a municipality. Voters in each municipality choose between four candidates. |
| outskirts | Outlying areas (as of a city or town. They lived on the outskirts of Houston. |
| populous | Having a large population; densely populated. The populous city of Shanghai. |
| prefecture | The office of prefect. Enraged fans besieged the Prefecture of Police. |
| provincial | (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order. Narrow provincial attitudes. |
| rural | Living in or characteristic of farming or country life. Rural people. |
| rustic | Characteristic of rural life. Rustic stone walls. |
| slum | Spend time at a lower social level than one’s own through curiosity or for charitable purposes. Businessmen are having to slum it in aircraft economy class seats. |
| sophisticate | Sophisticated. Readers who have been sophisticated by modern literary practice. |
| town | The particular town under consideration especially one s own town. Churchill was in town. |
| urban | Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area. Urban manners. |
| village | A self contained district or community within a town or city regarded as having features characteristic of village life. Pretty fishing villages. |
| villager | One who has lived in a village most of their life. Angry villagers have been forced to leave flooded areas. |
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