the suburbs

plural noun

: towns or other areas where people live in houses near a larger city

the suburbs of Chicago

also : one of the suburbs of a city

She left the city and moved to the suburbs.

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In general, people in the suburbs to the north of this line are richer than most people in the Bronx. —

CBS News, 24 Jan. 2025 Take Texas, for example—many of the suburbs highlighted are near larger cities, offering easy access without the challenges of dense urban life. —

Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025 Every year, Evanston and the suburbs honor the the late Baptist minister, activist, and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the third Monday in January. —

Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025 In December 2018, the consumer lawyer from Los Angeles went for a routine dentist appointment at Western Dental in San Mateo, in the suburbs of Northern California. —

Alana Semuels, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for the suburbs