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suburb

/suhb-urb/US // ˈsʌb ɜrb //UK // (ˈsʌbɜːb) //

郊区,近郊,郊外,市郊

Related Words

environs周边地区,周围环境,环境,周边环境hinterland腹地,内陆地区,内地,内陆outskirts郊区,郊外,近郊,乡郊countryside乡下,农村,乡村,乡下人village乡村,农村,乡村的,农村的outpost前哨,哨所,前哨站,前哨基地suburbia郊区,郊外,市郊,城郊country国家,乡村,国fringe边缘地带,边缘人,边缘化,边缘hamlet小村庄,村庄,小屋,小村purlieu肃清,肃穆,肃静,肃杀precinct分区,分局,辖区,辖区内slub竹节,竹节状,竹节式,竹节花burb毛坯房,布尔布,布尔博,土坯

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a district lying immediately outside a city or town, especially a smaller residential community.
    • : the suburbs, the area composed of such districts.
    • : an outlying part.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounneighborhood outside of but reliant on nearby large city
Synonyms
countryside乡下,农村,乡村,乡下人environs周边地区,周围环境,环境,周边环境hinterland腹地,内陆地区,内地,内陆outpost前哨,哨所,前哨站,前哨基地outskirts郊区,郊外,近郊,乡郊suburbia郊区,郊外,市郊,城郊village乡村,农村,乡村的,农村的country国家,乡村,国fringe边缘地带,边缘人,边缘化,边缘hamlet小村庄,村庄,小屋,小村precinct分区,分局,辖区,辖区内purlieu肃清,肃穆,肃静,肃杀slub竹节,竹节状,竹节式,竹节花bedroom community卧室社区,卧室小区,寝室社区,卧室区burb毛坯房,布尔布,布尔博,土坯outlying area外围地区,离岛地区,外围区域,外地residential area住宅区,居住区,居民区,住区

Examples

  • In 1950, in the suburbs of New Jersey, researchers at Bell Labs were busy making breakthroughs that paved the path for the first practical solar cells.

  • Western Pomerania, Dahlemann says, is becoming a suburb of Szczecin.

  • These activities aren’t usually allowed within cities and suburbs.

  • In other words, drone deliveries are likely not coming to densely-packed suburbs anytime soon.

  • Polling data suggests it is likely that this election will be decided in the suburbs.

  • It looks like the shoot-out at the OK Corral in a leafy Eindhoven suburb—but nobody seems to be a very good shot.

  • By September, he was flashing a thumbs-up to assembled fans as he walked into court in a Barcelona suburb.

  • On a recent trip to a rough Roman suburb, he apologized for the extra police protection.

  • And as this map shows, there are now five Soofas in Boston proper as well as two in the suburb of Babson.

  • Stephen Knolls School is a public school in a Maryland suburb of Washington DC.

  • The city and commercial suburb of Binondo wore their usual aspect, although trade was almost at a standstill.

  • Parochial church of Santiago, a suburb of Manila, and the souls cared for therein.

  • On February 18th the French captured the suburb on the left bank of the river, and thus placed the inner town between two fires.

  • It was one of a terrace of three that stood high above the suburb, close to the elm-tree walk overlooking the West Heath.

  • This part is really the city; beyond is a suburb laid out in gardens densely inhabited.

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