suburbs

n. residential area around a major city; environs

n. residential area lying on the outskirts of a city or town

Suburbs are commonly defined as residential areas on the outskirts of a city or large town. Most modern suburbs are commuter towns with many single-family homes. Many suburbs have some degree of political autonomy and most have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods. Mechanical transport, including automobiles, enabled the 20th century growth of suburbs, which tend to proliferate near cities with an abundance of adjacent flat land.
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Noun
1. a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
(synonym) suburbia, suburban area
(hypernym) residential district, residential area, community
(hyponym) addition
(part-holonym) outskirt, fringe

the immediate vicinity of a city or town (Num. 35:3, 7; Ezek. 45:2). In 2 Kings 23:11 the Hebrew word there used (parvarim) occurs nowhere else. The Revised Version renders it "precincts." The singular form of this Hebrew word (parvar) is supposed by some to be the same as Parbar (q.v.), which occurs twice in 1 Chr. 26:18.

Synonyms and related words:
Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, alentours, ambience, ambit, barrio, black ghetto, blighted area, borderlands, business district, central city, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, city center, compass, context, core, downtown, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, fringes, gestalt, ghetto, greenbelt, habitat, inner city, midtown, milieu, neighborhood, outposts, outskirts, perimeter, periphery, precincts, purlieus, red-light district, residential district, run-down neighborhood, shopping center, situation, skid road, skid row, slum, slums, suburbia, surroundings, tenderloin, tenement district, total environment, uptown, urban blight, vicinage, vicinity