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English
Etymology
From Old French suburbe, subburbe, from Latin suburbium (from
sub- + urbs (“city”)). Displaced native Old English underburg (literally “sub-” or “under-city”).
Pronunciation
Noun
suburb (plural suburbs)
- A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc.
- Coordinate term: exurb
1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Numbers 35:1–2:And the Lord spake vnto Moses in the plaines of Moab by Iordane, neere Iericho, saying,
Command the children of Israel, that they giue vnto the Leuites of the inheritance of their possession, cities to dwell in: and yee shall giue also vnto the Leuites suburbs for the cities round about them.
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A Millar, , →OCLC:These two circumstances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much less frequented track; and after riding full six miles, instead of arriving at the stately spires of Coventry, they found themselves still in a very dirty lane, where they saw no symptoms of approaching the suburbs of a large city.
1818, Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages:[London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.
1843, “Geographical Description of the Chinese Provinces.”, in An Historical and Descriptive Account of China, 3rd edition, volume III, →OCLC, page 37:Canton is by no means the only great city in the province. Fo-chan, a kind of suburb to it, about twelve miles distant, has been represented as almost as large.
2007 June 24, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “Hong Kong Is Reshaped by Mainlanders”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-06-05, Asia Pacific:At the mountain’s base is the leafy suburb of Kowloon Tong. It has never been a big tourist draw, but in the decade since territorial control returned to China, this quintessentially Hong Kong neighborhood has had many more visitors — and important changes.
- (by extension) The outer part; the environment.
1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. , 2nd edition, London: Francis Ashe , →OCLC:the suburbs […] of sorrow
- (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.
Derived terms
Translations
area on the periphery of a city or large town
- Afrikaans: voorstad (af)
- Albanian: rrethinë (sq) f
- Arabic: ضَاحِيَة f (ḍāḥiya)
- Armenian: արվարձան (hy) (arvarjan)
- Azerbaijani: kənar məhəllə
- Belarusian: пры́гарад m (prýharad), прадме́сце n (pradmjéscje)
- Bengali: উপনগর (bn) (uponogor), শহরতলি (bn) (śohortoli)
- Bulgarian: предгра́дие (bg) n (predgrádie)
- Burmese: ဆင်ခြေဖုံး (my) (hcanghkrehpum:)
- Catalan: suburbi m, rodalies (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 近郊 (zh) (jìnjiāo), 郊外 (zh) (jiāowài), 郊區/郊区 (zh) (jiāoqū)
- Crimean Tatar: şeer civarı
- Czech: předměstí (cs) n
- Danish: forstad (da) c
- Dutch: voorstad (nl) m or f, buitenwijk (nl) ?
- Esperanto: antaŭurbo (eo)
- Estonian: eeslinn, äärelinn, agul
- Finnish: esikaupunkialue, esikaupunki (fi), lähiö (fi)
- French: banlieue (fr) f, faubourg (fr) m
- Galician: barrio (gl) m, burgo m
- Georgian: გარეუბანში (gareubanši), გარეუბანი (gareubani)
- German: Vorstadt (de) f, Vorort (de) m
- Greek: προάστιο (el) n (proástio)
- Ancient: προάστιον n (proástion)
- Hebrew: פַּרבָּר (he) m (parbar), פַּרוָר (he) m (parvár)
- Hindi: उपनगर (hi) m (upangar)
- Hungarian: külváros (hu), kertváros (hu)
- Icelandic: úthverfi n
- Ido: suburbo (io), preurbo (io)
- Irish: fo-bhaile m, bruachbhaile m
- Italian: sobborgo (it) m
- Japanese: 近郊 (ja) (きんこう, kinkō), 郊外 (ja) (こうがい, kōgai)
- Kazakh: қала айнала (qala ainala)
- Khmer: ក្រុងក្រៅ (krong kraw), ក្រៅក្រុង (kraw krong)
- Korean: 근교 (ko) (geun'gyo), 교외 (ko) (gyooe)
- Kyrgyz: шаар айланасы (şaar aylanası)
- Lao: ຊານເມືອງ (sān mư̄ang), ນອກເມືອງ (nǭk mư̄ang)
- Latin: suburbium n
- Latvian: priekšpilsēta f, piepilsēta f
- Lithuanian: priemiestis m
- Macedonian: предгра́дие n (predgrádie)
- Maori: moka
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хотын зах (xotyn zax)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forstad (no) m
- Nynorsk: forstad m
- Old English: underburg f
- Persian: حومهٔ شهر (hume-ye šahr), حومه (fa) (hume)
- Polish: przedmieście (pl) n
- Portuguese: periferia (pt) f, subúrbio (pt) m
- Romanian: suburbie (ro) f
- Russian: при́город (ru) m (prígorod), предме́стье (ru) n (predméstʹje)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: прѐдгра̄ђе n
- Roman: prèdgrāđe (sh) n
- Slovak: predmestie n
- Slovene: predmestje n
- Spanish: afueras (es) f pl, arrabal (es) m, suburbio (es) m, extrarradio (es) m
- Swahili: kiunga
- Swedish: förort (sv) c, förstad (sv) c, orten (sv) (the hood)
- Tagalog: naik (tl), kanugnog
- Tajik: атрофи шаҳр (atrofi šahr), беруни шаҳр (beruni šahr)
- Thai: ชานเมือง (th) (chaan-mʉʉang)
- Tibetan: ཉེ་སྐོར་གྲོང་ཚོ (nye skor grong tsho), མཐའ་སྐོར་གྲོང་ཚོ (mtha' skor grong tsho)
- Turkish: varoş (tr), kenar mahalle, banliyö (tr), yörekent (tr)
- Ukrainian: передмі́стя n (peredmístja), при́город m (prýhorod)
- Vietnamese: vùng ven đô, ngoại thành (vi), ngoại ô (vi)
- Yiddish: פֿאָרשטאָט f (forshtot)
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Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation
- Arabic: حَيّ (ar) m (ḥayy)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 區/区 (zh) (qū)
- Danish: bydel (da) c
- Dutch: stadsdeel (nl) n, district (nl)
- Esperanto: kvartalo
- Finnish: kaupunginosa (fi)
- French: arrondissement (fr) m
- German: Stadtteil (de) m, Bezirk (de) m, Stadtbezirk (de) m
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἄμφοδον n (ámphodon)
- Hungarian: kerület (hu), városrész (hu)
- Irish: barda (ga) m, barda cathrach m
- Japanese: 地区 (ja) (ちく, chiku), 区 (ja) (く, ku)
- Khmer: ខាង (km) (kʰang), សង្កាត់ (km) (sɑngkat)
- Korean: 구 (ko) (gu)
- Macedonian: на́селба f (náselba), рео́н m (reón)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bydel (no) m
- Nynorsk: bydel m
- Polish: okręg (pl) m, dzielnica (pl) f
- Portuguese: freguesia (pt) f
- Russian: о́круг (ru) m (ókrug), райо́н (ru) m (rajón)
- Turkish: mahalle (tr), semt (tr), bölge (tr)
- Vietnamese: phường (vi)
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