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Uptown vs Suburb - What's the difference?

uptown | suburb |

As nouns the difference between uptown and suburb

is that uptown is the residential part of a city, away from the commercial center while suburb is the area on the periphery of a city or large town.

As an adverb uptown

is to or in the upper part of a town.

uptown

English

(wikipedia uptown)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, North America) the residential part of a city, away from the commercial center

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (US) To or in the upper part of a town.
    • Let's go uptown .

    See also

    * downtown * oldtown

    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