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Suburb vs Metroplex - What's the difference?

suburb | metroplex |

As nouns the difference between suburb and metroplex

is that suburb is the area on the periphery of a city or large town while metroplex is (us) a large metropolitan area containing several cities and their suburbs.

suburb

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The area on the periphery of a city or large town.
  • * Hallam
    • [London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.
  • (by extension) The outer part; the environment.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • the suburbs of sorrow
  • * Milton
    • the suburb of their straw-built citadel
  • (AU, NZ) Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.

    • Derived terms

    * suburbia * suburbian * suburban * burb

    metroplex

    English

    Noun

    (es) (wikipedia metroplex)
  • (US) A large metropolitan area containing several cities and their suburbs.