Definitions for suburb

suburb sub·urb

Spelling: [suhb-urb]
IPA: /ˈsʌb ɜrb/

Suburb is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in suburb (bbrsuu).

Definitions for suburb

noun

  1. a district lying immediately outside a city or town, especially a smaller residential community.
  2. the suburbs, the area composed of such districts.
  3. an outlying part.

Origin of suburb

1350-1400; Middle English Latin suburbium, equivalent to sub- sub- + urb(s) city + -ium -ium

Examples for suburb

Not long thereafter the building in the suburb of Cooperstown was burned.

There may be some time, when that part of the country becomes a suburb of Cordova!

On a recent trip to a rough Roman suburb, he apologized for the extra police protection.

On August 21, rockets struck in the east and west of the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, at the time a rebel stronghold.

This suburb of Berea is one of the prettiest spots in South Africa.

He has a perfectly self-conscious joy that he is not in a square or a suburb.

Stephen Knolls School is a public school in a Maryland suburb of Washington DC.

By September, he was flashing a thumbs-up to assembled fans as he walked into court in a Barcelona suburb.

And as this map shows, there are now five Soofas in Boston proper as well as two in the suburb of Babson.

She and her aunt had lived for five years in this suburb of St. Ellis.

Word Value for suburb
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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