Usually means: Suburban area outside a city.
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  1. burb: Merriam-Webster
  2. burb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. burb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. burb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Burb, burb: Wordnik
  6. 'burb, burb: Wiktionary
  7. burb: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. 'burb, burb: Dictionary.com
  9. 'burb, burb: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (colloquial, chiefly in the plural) A suburb.

Similar:
boomburb, snoburbs, suburbanite, snoburbia, Burke, burick, buer, burerk, Burg, the 'Bu, more...

Opposite:
rural, countryside, remote, rustic, pastoral

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Similar:
boomburb, snoburbs, suburbanite, snoburbia, Burke, burick, buer, burerk, Burg, the 'Bu, more...

Opposite:
rural, countryside, remote, rustic, pastoral



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