suburb (original) (raw)
Meaning of suburb in English
Examples of suburb
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Studies of suburbs and cities must combine the mutual interaction of socio-cultural formations and the built form.
All participants attended preschool programmes in the suburbs of a major metropolitan area.
All of us believe that restrictive covenants were a critical element in the social composition and design of the suburbs.
During the 1930s a powerful stimulus to the rise of post-war corporate suburbs was initiated.
A new building type was coming to the suburbs.
There seem to have been at least four bakehouses within the town walls, and two more in the northern suburbs.
Attitudes to the suburbs were expressed in discussions related to piped water supply and sewerage, especially the extension of water.
Nevertheless, the city's population continued to increase and new suburbs developed outside the original town walls.
The city pursued parallel programmes of building high-rise flats both in the central areas on slum cleared land and in its suburbs on greenfield sites.
Despite having removed to the suburbs, nonconformists continued to worship in city centre chapels.
Immigrants living on these streets moved to the newly built suburbs or elsewhere in town.
Owning a car made it possible to live in the suburbs and drive to work.
As for samples collected in the city centre, those from western suburbs in residential districts remain differentiated whatever the period examined.
Most inhabitants of the new suburbs, however, were not foreign-born.
The monolingual children were attending childcare programs in middle-class suburbs of a large city.
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Collocations with suburb
These are words often used in combination with suburb.
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Environmental disaster makes no distinction, for example, between the sink estate and the affluent suburb.
These sub-loops allowed more direct journeys to the city centre from the eastern suburbs giving the overall scheme greater viability.
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Rocklea is a mostly industrial suburb, being the home to many large firms from a range industries.
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Translations of suburb
in Chinese (Traditional)
城郊, 近郊住宅區…
in Chinese (Simplified)
城郊, 近郊住宅区…
in Spanish
zona residencial en las afueras de una ciudad, suburbio [masculine, singular]…
in Portuguese
zona residencial na periferia de uma cidade, subúrbio, subúrbio [masculine]…
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dış mahalle, banliyö, varoş…
banlieue [feminine], banlieue…
zona residencial als afores d’una ciutat…
நகரம் அல்லது நகரத்தில் பணிபுரியும் மக்கள் பெரும்பாலும் வாழும் ஒரு பெரிய நகரம் அல்லது நகரத்தின் விளிம்பில் உள்ள ஒரு பகுதி…
forstad [masculine], utkant [masculine], forstad…
مضافاتی, نواحی, شہر کے گردو پیش کا علاقہ…
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