- Suburb roister
- Suburb Sub"urb, n. [L. suburbium; sub under, below, near +
urbs a city. See {Urban}.]
1. An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place
immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region
which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a
house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the
suburbs of Paris. ``In the suburbs of a town.'' --Chaucer.
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[London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous. --Hallam. [1913 Webster]
2. Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment. ``The suburbs . . . of sorrow.'' --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
The suburb of their straw-built citadel. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
{Suburb roister}, a rowdy; a loafer. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.