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Surrounding vs Suburb - What's the difference?

surrounding | suburb |

As nouns the difference between surrounding and suburb

is that surrounding is outlaying area; area in proximity to something while suburb is the area on the periphery of a city or large town.

As a verb surrounding

is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective surrounding

is which surrounds something.

surrounding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • outlaying area; area in proximity to something
  • environment

    • Synonyms

    * periphery

    Adjective

    (-)
  • which surrounds something

    • 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