Word Meanings - SUBURB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: SUBURB

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. 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. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUBURB)

• Purlieu
• Environ
• precinct
• suburb

Related words: (words related to SUBURB)

• PURLIEU
  puralée, poralée (equiv. to LL. perambulatio a survey of boundaries, originally, a going through); por (L. pro, confused, however, with L. 1. Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest,
• ENVIRONS
  The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.
• PRECINCT
  praecinctum, to gird about, to encompass; prae before + cingere to 1. The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state. "The precincts
• SUBURBICARIAN; SUBURBICARY
  Being in the suburbs; -- applied to the six dioceses in the suburbs of Rome subject to the pope as bishop of Rome. The pope having stretched his authority beyond the bounds of his suburbicarian precincts. Barrow.
• ENVIRON
  To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop. Dwelling in a pleasant glade, With mountains round about environed. Spenser. Environed he was with many foes. Shak. Environ me with darkness whilst I write.
• SUBURBAN
  Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city. "Suburban taverns." Longfellow. Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, . . . Delight the citizen. Cowper.
• SUBURBED
  Having a suburb or suburbs on its outer part.
• SUBURBIAL; SUBURBIAN
  Suburban. "Suburbial fields." Warton. "Suburbian muse." Dryden.
• SUBURB
  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
• ENVIRONMENT
  1. Act of environing; state of being environed. 2. That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development. It is no friendly environment,