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# suburban

adjective

«suburban» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Suburban means of or in the outer parts of a town or city, where there are houses and gardens, away from the centre. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suburban/#m1)

### In the lessons

a setting of houses and gardens on the edge of a big town; sometimes said to show ordinary, quiet life

### Examples

- We live in a quiet suburban street. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suburban/#x1)
- The suburban gardens were full of flowers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suburban/#x2)
- The school is in a suburban area, not in the centre. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suburban/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths; it describes a place, not an amount

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «suburban» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suburban/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«suburban» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/suburban.html) on Mova free.