All suburb synonyms
sub·urb
S s noun suburb
- demesne — land, esp surrounding a house or manor, retained by the owner for his or her own use
- bedroom community — An urban community that is primarily residential, from which most of the workforce commutes out to earn their livelihood; often a suburb of a nearby metropolis that workers travel to daily.
- bedroom suburb — a commuter suburb, from which people travel to the city centre to work
- neighborhood — the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.
- demesnes — possession of land as one's own: land held in demesne.
- locality — a place, spot, or district, with or without reference to things or persons in it or to occurrences there: They moved to another locality.
- neighbourhood — Standard spelling of neighborhood.
- greenbelt — a town in central Maryland.
- exurbia — The exurbs collectively ; the region beyond the suburbs.
- environs — The surrounding area or district.
- longitude — Geography. angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in time.
- hamlet — (italics) a tragedy (first printed 1603) by Shakespeare.
- contiguity — the state of being contiguous; nearness or contact
- outskirts — Often, outskirts. the outlying district or region, as of a city, metropolitan area, or the like: to live on the outskirts of town; a sparsely populated outskirt.
- adjacency — the quality or state of being adjacent; nearness