Region vs Suburb - What's the difference?
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Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
(historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
(anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
(obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
The area on the periphery of a city or large town.
* Hallam
(by extension) The outer part; the environment.
* Jeremy Taylor
* Milton
(AU, NZ) Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.
As nouns the difference between region and suburb
is that region is any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons while suburb is the area on the periphery of a city or large town.region
English
Noun
(wikipedia region) (en noun)- the equatorial regions
- the temperate regions
- the polar regions
- the upper regions of the atmosphere
- the abdominal regions
References
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English
Noun
(en noun)- [London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.
- the suburbs of sorrow
- the suburb of their straw-built citadel