Usually means: Residential area outside urban center.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word Suburb:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. suburb: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. suburb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. suburb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. suburb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. suburb: Vocabulary.com
  6. Suburb, suburb: Wordnik
  7. suburb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. suburb: Wiktionary
  9. suburb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. suburb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. suburb: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. suburb: Dictionary.com
  13. suburb: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. suburb: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Suburb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Suburb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. suburb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. suburb: Rhymezone
  19. suburb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. suburb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. suburb: Free Dictionary
  22. suburb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. suburb: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Suburb: World Wide Words

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. suburb: Legal dictionary
  2. suburb: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suburb: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (suburb)

noun:  A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc.
noun:  (by extension) The outer part; the environment.
noun:  (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.

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