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Suburban vs Suburb - What's the difference?

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Suburb is a derived term of suburban.

Suburb is a related term of suburban.



As nouns the difference between suburban and suburb

is that suburban is an automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis while suburb is the area on the periphery of a city or large town.

As an adjective suburban

is relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city.

suburban

English

(wikipedia suburban)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city.
  • * Cowper
    • Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, delight the citizen.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis.

    • Related terms

    * suburb * periphery * environs

    Antonyms

    * nonsuburban

    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