Sub"urb (?), n. [L. suburbium;
sub under, below, near + urbs a city. See Urban.]
1. An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller
place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which
is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in
the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of
Paris. "In the suburbs of a town." Chaucer.
[London] could hardly have contained less than thirty
or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were
very populous.
Hallam.
2. Hence, the confines; the outer part; the
environment. "The suburbs . . . of sorrow." Jer.
Taylor.
The suburb of their straw-built
citadel.
Milton.
Suburb roister, a rowdy; a loafer.
[Obs.] Milton.
Sub"urb (?), n. [L. suburbium;
sub under, below, near + urbs a city. See Urban.]
1. An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller
place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which
is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in
the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of
Paris. "In the suburbs of a town." Chaucer.
[London] could hardly have contained less than thirty
or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were
very populous.
Hallam.
2. Hence, the confines; the outer part; the
environment. "The suburbs . . . of sorrow." Jer.
Taylor.
The suburb of their straw-built
citadel.
Milton.
Suburb roister, a rowdy; a loafer.
[Obs.] Milton.
