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Webster 1913 Edition
Suburb
1.
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;
“In the suburbs of a town.” as, a house stands in the
. suburbs
; a garden situated in the suburbs
of ParisChaucer.
[London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the
suburbs
were very populous. Hallam.
2.
Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment.
“The suburbs . . . of sorrow.” Jer. Taylor.
The
suburb
of their straw-built citadel. Milton.
Suburb roister
, a rowdy; a loafer.
[Obs.]
Milton.