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How to pronounce suburb in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms suburban area, suburbia
Type of residential district, residential area, community
Has types bedroom community, addition, stockbroker belt, faubourg

Examples of suburb

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Today, the first annual North American Bedbug Summit begins in a Chicago suburb.
From the abcnews.go.com
For many years, Orange County was seen as a wealthy white suburb of Los Angeles.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Josaitis died at age 79 in August at a hospice in the Detroit suburb of Livonia.
From the freep.com
The population of Monroe County's largest suburb, Greece, grew much more slowly.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Mackey approached the producers a while back suggesting they feature the suburb.
From the dailyherald.com
In the suburb of Ardeer, one in every three residents aged over 55 has diabetes.
From the brimbankweekly.com.au
The government has designated the Moscow suburb of Skolkovo as a technology hub.
From the businessweek.com
She's 11 and just started sixth grade in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mount Lebanon.
From the online.wsj.com
Barrington is not the only local suburb to spend money fighting the transaction.
From the dailyherald.com
More examples
  • A residential district located on the outskirts of a city
  • (suburban) relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs; "suburban population"
  • Suburb mostly refers to a residential area. They may be the residential areas of a city, or separate residential communities within commuting distance of a city. Some suburbs have a degree of political autonomy, and most have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods. ...
  • Suburbs and localities are the names of geographic subdivisions in Australia, mainly for address purposes. The name locality is used in rural areas, while the equivalent in urban areas are suburbs. ...
  • (The Suburban) The Suburban is the largest English-language weekly newspaper in the province of Quebec. It is a community newspaper based in the Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent, and serves primarily the west-end of the city and the West Island suburbs. ...
  • (The Suburbs) The Suburbs were an alternative punk rock/funk/new wave band from Minneapolis, Minnesota popular in the late 1970s through the 1980s. The band frequently headlined at Minneapolis's most influential music clubs including Jay's Longhorn Bar and First Avenue.
  • (The Suburbs (disambiguation)) The Suburbs was an American rock band.
  • (The Suburbs (web series)) The Suburbs is a popular YouTube based, web series created, produced, edited and directed by Charles Plummer. An online reality docu-drama, it documents the lives of several teenagers living in southern Westchester, New York.. ...
  • The area on the periphery of a city or large town that falls between being truly part of the city, but is not countryside either; any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery