English
Etymology
From Old French suburbe , subburbe , from Latin suburbium , from sub- + urbs ( “ 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
1749 , Henry Fielding , The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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.
(Can we date this quote by Hallam and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
[London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.
( by extension ) The outer part; the environment.
(Can we date this quote by Jeremy Taylor and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
the suburbs [ …] of sorrow
(Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
the suburb of their straw-built citadel
( Australia , New Zealand ) 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 )
Belarusian: пры́гарад m ( prýharad ) , прадме́сце n ( pradmjéscje )
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 ) , 郊区 (zh) ( jiāoqū )
Crimean Tatar: şeer civarı
Czech: předměstí n
Danish: forstad (da) c
Dutch: voorstad (nl) m or f , buitenwijk (nl) ?
Esperanto: antaŭurbo (eo)
Estonian: äärelinn , agul
Finnish: esikaupunkialue , esikaupunki (fi) , lähiö (fi)
French: banlieue (fr) f , faubourg (fr) m
Georgian: გარეუბანში ( gareubanši ) , გარეუბანი ( gareubani )
German: Vorstadt (de) f , Vorort (de) m
Greek: προάστιο (el) n ( proástio )
Ancient Greek: προάστιον n ( proástion )
Hebrew: פַּרבָּר (he) m ( parbar ) , פַּרוָר (he) m ( parvár )
Hindi: उपनगर (hi) ? ( upangar )
Hungarian: külváros (hu)
Icelandic: úthverfi ?
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 ( kroŋ krav ) , ក្រៅក្រុង ( krav kroŋ )
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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: хотын зах ( xotyn zax )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forstad (no) m
Nynorsk: forstad m
Old English: underburg f
Persian: حومۀ شهر ( hume-ye šahr )
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 m
Swahili: kiunga
Swedish: förort (sv) c , förstad c
Tagalog: naik (tl) , kanugnog
Tajik: атрофи шаҳр ( atrof-i šahr ) , беруни шаҳр ( berun-i 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 )
Australian, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation