Usually means: Residential areas outside urban centers.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word suburban:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. suburban: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. suburban: Merriam-Webster
  3. suburban: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. suburban: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. suburban: Collins English Dictionary
  6. suburban: Vocabulary.com
  7. Suburban, suburban: Wordnik
  8. suburban: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. suburban: Wiktionary
  10. suburban: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. suburban: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. suburban: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. suburban: Dictionary.com
  14. suburban: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Suburban (disambiguation), Suburban, The Suburban: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Suburban: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. suburban: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. suburban: Rhymezone
  19. suburban: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. suburban: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. suburban: FreeDictionary.org
  22. suburban: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. suburban: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suburban: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suburban: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city.
▸ noun:  A person who lives in a suburb.
▸ noun:  An automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis.

Similar:
exurban, cityside, rural, subterritorial, rurban, ruralistic, Urban, subdivisional, agropolitan, suburbicary, more...

Opposite:
urban, central, metropolitan, inner-city, downtown

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cul-de-sac, gated community, greenbelt, more...

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suburban area, suburban sprawl, suburban population, south suburban, urban suburban, more...

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black, city, white, new, big, blue, old, green, dark, red, second

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Similar:
exurban, cityside, rural, subterritorial, rurban, ruralistic, Urban, subdivisional, agropolitan, suburbicary, more...

Opposite:
urban, central, metropolitan, inner-city, downtown

Types:
cul-de-sac, gated community, greenbelt, more...

Phrases:
suburban area, suburban sprawl, suburban population, south suburban, urban suburban, suburban cocktail, Chevrolet Suburban, Suburban Rail Loop, Suburban Commando, Mumbai Suburban Railway, more...

Adjectives:
black, city, white, new, big, blue, old, green, dark, red, second

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     olive green,     slate gray,     brick red, more...



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