Definitions
a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
Word origin
From Old French suburbe, subburbe, from Latin suburbium (from sub- (“under-”) + urbs (“city”)). Displaced native Old English underburg (literally “underborough”).
Used in a sentence
“[London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.”
“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.”
“the suburbs […] of sorrow”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“City outskirts”6 letters
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