suburb
/ˈsʌb·ɜrb/ n [C]Definition
› an area outside a city but near it and consisting mainly of homes, sometimes also having stores and small businesses: [pl] Most of the people who live in the suburbs work in the city. suburban /səˈbɜr·bən/ adj › He grew up in a wealthy suburban community near Chicago.
(Definition of suburb n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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