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Suburb vs Suburbanize - What's the difference?

suburb | suburbanize |

As a noun suburb

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

As a verb suburbanize is

to make suburban; to convert or adapt to a suburb.

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

    suburbanize

    English

    Verb

    (suburbaniz)
  • To make suburban; to convert or adapt to a suburb.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 27, author=Isabel Kershner, title=The Kibbutz Sheds Socialism and Gains Popularity, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Only in 2007 they are less about pure socialism than a kind of suburbanized version of it. }}

    Related terms

    * suburbanization