Thesaurus results for SUBURB

suburb

noun

Definition of suburb

as in town

an community near a larger city a small suburb outside of Dallas

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Recent Examples of suburb Fast-growing suburbs have been built in the forest, raising California-style questions about housing expansion deeper into fire-prone wildlands. — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026 Fans crowded with journalists outside a Paris hotel as the Grammy-winning star settled in to prepare her residency of 16 shows in September and October at the Plenitude Arena in the French capital's western suburbs. — Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2026 Willow Lake Plantation in Brentwood The ‘Queen of Country’ claimed her throne in Brentwood, a suburb of Nashville. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 29 Aug. 2026 In March, a man attacked Temple Israel synagogue in a Detroit suburb, ramming his car into the building and opening fire on a security guard before dying by suicide. — ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for suburb

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At least 165 people have been killed, and hundreds more are missing after catastrophic floods swept through towns and valleys along the border between Nepal and China's Tibet region.

— Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026
Last awards season, the gossip around town, salacious and disturbing in equal measure, was that hotel suites all over Hollywood were populated by tailors taking in gowns coming straight off the runway.

— Marti Noxon, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of town

Noun

The story follows Ana, a young Black French woman who, following the death of her grandmother, travels to her matriarch’s birth city of Belo Horizonte.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026
The fair will bring together galleries from 63 cities in 36 countries, including 36 galleries (around 43 percent) with locations in the SWANA region.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 27 Aug. 2026