Synonyms:
suburb, suburbia, suburban_area
Meaning: a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
Usage examples
Here, in a suburb of the city, Father De Smet decided to dock for the night.
Defarge had described himself, that day, as the keeper of a wine-shop in the Saint Antoine suburb.
When he was nine years old, his father became poor and the family was obliged to move to London, where it lived in a shabby house in a poor suburb.
In 1532, at Pleinpalais, a suburb of Geneva, some rascals from among a band of gipsies, consisting of upwards of three hundred in number, fell upon several of the officers who were stationed to prevent their entering the town.