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S vs Suburb - What's the difference?

s | suburb |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun suburb is

the area on the periphery of a city or large town.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

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    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