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# suburban

«suburban» in Mova's school dictionary: **of or in the outer parts of a town or city, where there…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suburban/#m1)

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

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «suburban» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suburban/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.