Usually means: Suburban area surrounding French cities.
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  1. banlieue: Merriam-Webster
  2. banlieue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. banlieue: Collins English Dictionary
  4. banlieue: Wordnik
  5. banlieue: Wiktionary
  6. Banlieue: Dictionary.com
  7. Banlieue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Banlieue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. banlieue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Banlieue, banlieue (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. banlieue: FreeDictionary.org
  12. banlieue: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Banlieue: Wordnik

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  1. banlieue: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (banlieue)

▸ noun:  The outskirts of a city, especially in France, inhabited chiefly by poor people living in tenement-style housing.

Similar:
faubourg, bidonville, barrio, Boulogne-Billancourt, arrondissement, quartier, vicinage, Bercy, Boulogne, Sèvres, more...

Opposite:
city center, downtown, urbcore

Types:
ghetto, slum, barrio, favela, township, more...

Adjectives:
parisian, french, seine, class, industrial, western, dusty, northern, southern, little, hideous

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Similar:
faubourg, bidonville, barrio, Boulogne-Billancourt, arrondissement, quartier, vicinage, Bercy, Boulogne, Sèvres, more...

Opposite:
city center, downtown, urbcore

Types:
ghetto, slum, barrio, favela, township, more...

Adjectives:
parisian, french, seine, class, industrial, western, dusty, northern, southern, little, hideous



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