suburbs
SaySUB-urbzUS/ˈsʌbɝbz/UK/ˈsʌbɜːbz/
- 1Plural of suburb. Use it for more than one suburb.
The city has twelve suburbs, and each one has its own school.
Two of the northern suburbs are getting new train stations.
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- 2The areas with houses that spread around the outside of a city.
They grew up in the suburbs and took the train into the city for work.
Shops in the suburbs close earlier than the ones downtown.
Similaroutskirts
Note
suburbs is a form of suburb
suburb, noun: A town area just outside a big city, where people live and also shop nearby. Full entry
- Forms
- suburbsuburbs plural
- Spelling
- suburb → suburbs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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