Usually means: Residential areas outside urban centers.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word suburbs:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. suburbs, the suburbs: Merriam-Webster
  2. suburbs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. suburbs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Suburbs, suburb's, suburbs: Wordnik
  5. suburbs, the suburbs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. suburbs: Wiktionary
  7. Suburbs, suburbs, the suburbs: Dictionary.com
  8. suburbs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Suburbs (album), Suburbs, The Suburbs (Arcade Fire album), The Suburbs (album), The Suburbs (band), The Suburbs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. suburbs: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. suburbs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. suburbs: Legal dictionary
  2. suburbs: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suburbs: Encyclopedia

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Suburbs: Easton Bible
  2. SUBURBS: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. suburbs: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the suburbs: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (suburbs)

noun:  (urban studies, plural only) The populated area surrounding a city.

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