suburb
noun uk/ˈsʌb.ɜːb/ us/ˈsʌb.ɝːb/
B2 [ C ]城郊;近郊住宅区
an area on the edge of a large town or city where people who work in the town or city often live
Box Hill is a suburb of Melbourne. 博士山属于墨尔本的近郊住宅区。
We drove from middle-class suburbs to a very poor inner-city area. 我们从中产阶级的近郊住宅区驱车前往市中心的贫民区。
the suburbs[ plural ] 郊区，城外
the outer area of a town, rather than the shopping and business centre in the middle
The company decided to relocate to the suburbs because the rent was much cheaper. 公司决定搬到城郊去，因为那里的租金便宜得多。
- More examples
- a leafy suburb
- a middle-class suburb of New York
- It's a suburb of Manchester really - I wouldn't call it Manchester proper.
- We live in a suburb of London.
- I grew up in a very middle-class suburb of Birmingham.