suburb

noun

A usually residential area or community outlying a city.

noun

The usually residential region around a major city; the environs.

noun

An outlying part of a city or town; a part outside of the city boundaries but adjoining them: often used in the plural to signify loosely some part near a city: as, a garden situated in the suburbs of London. The form suburbs was formerly often used as a singular.

noun

The confines; the outskirts.

Suburban; suited to the suburbs, or to the less well regulated parts of a city.

noun

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.

noun

Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment.

noun

a rowdy; a loafer.

noun

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.

noun

any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.