Helen and Kathy rented an apartment in a suburb of Tokyo.
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Suburb
//ˈsʌbɝb//
Synonyms for "suburb" (31 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (15)
Related word relations
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3 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
7 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
2 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
12 entriesTranslations
159 translations across 68 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- voorstad noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Albanian
1 entries- rrethinë noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- προάστιον noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- ἄμφοδον noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
Arabic
2 entries- حَيّ noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- ضَاحِيَة noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Armenian
1 entries- արվարձան noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kənar məhəllə noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Belarusian
3 entries- прадме́сце noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- прадме́сьце noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- пры́гарад noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Bengali
2 entries- উপনগর noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- শহরতলি noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Bulgarian
1 entries- предгра́дие noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Burmese
1 entries- ဆင်ခြေဖုံး noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Catalan
2 entries- rodalies noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- suburbi noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 區 /区 noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- 近郊 noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- 郊區 /郊区 noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- 郊外 noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- şeer civarı noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Czech
1 entries- předměstí noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Danish
2 entries- bydel noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- forstad noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Dari
2 entries- حَوْمَه noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- حَوْمَهٔ شَهْر noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Dutch
4 entries- buitenwijk noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- district noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- stadsdeel noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- voorstad noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Esperanto
2 entries- antaŭurbo noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- kvartalo noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
Estonian
3 entries- agul noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- eeslinn noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- äärelinn noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Finnish
4 entries- esikaupunki noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- esikaupunkialue noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- kaupunginosa noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- lähiö noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
French
3 entries- arrondissement noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- banlieue noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- faubourg noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Galician
2 entries- barrio noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- burgo noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Georgian
2 entries- გარეუბანი noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- გარეუბანში noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
German
4 entries- Bezirk noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- Stadtbezirk noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- Stadtteil noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- Vorort noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Greek
1 entries- προάστιο noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Hebrew
2 entries- פַּרבָּר noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- פַּרוָר noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Hindi
1 entries- उपनगर noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Hungarian
4 entries- kertváros noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- kerület noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- külváros noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- városrész noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
Icelandic
1 entries- úthverfi noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Ido
2 entries- preurbo noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- suburbo noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Iranian Persian
4 entries- اَطْراف noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- اَطْرافِ شَهْر noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- حَوالی noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- حُوْمِه noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Irish
4 entries- barda noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- barda cathrach noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- bruachbhaile noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- fo-bhaile noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Italian
1 entries- sobborgo noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Japanese
4 entries- 区 noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- 地区 noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- 近郊 noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- 郊外 noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Kazakh
1 entries- қала айнала noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Khmer
4 entries- ក្រុងក្រៅ noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- ក្រៅក្រុង noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- ខាង noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- សង្កាត់ noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
Korean
4 entries- 교외 noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- 구 noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- 근교 noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- 시외 noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- шаар айланасы noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Lao
2 entries- ຊານເມືອງ noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- ນອກເມືອງ noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Latin
1 entries- suburbium noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Latvian
2 entries- piepilsēta noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- priekšpilsēta noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Lithuanian
1 entries- priemiestis noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Macedonian
3 entries- на́селба noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- предгра́дие noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- рео́н noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
Mongolian
1 entries- хотын зах noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Māori
2 entries- moka noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- paenoho noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- bydel noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- forstad noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- bydel noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- forstad noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Old English
1 entries- underburg noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Polish
4 entries- dzielnica noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- okręg noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- przedmieście noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- suburbium noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Portuguese
3 entries- freguesia noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- periferia noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- subúrbio noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Romanian
1 entries- suburbie noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Russian
4 entries- о́круг noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- предме́стье noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- при́город noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- райо́н noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- prèdgrāđe noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- прѐдгра̄ђе noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Slovak
1 entries- predmestie noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Slovene
1 entries- predmestje noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Spanish
4 entries- afueras noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- arrabal noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- barrio noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- extrarradio noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Swahili
1 entries- kiunga noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Swedish
3 entries- förort noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- förstad noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- orten noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Tagalog
2 entries- kanugnog noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- naik noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Tajik
4 entries- атроф noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- атрофи шаҳр noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- беруни шаҳр noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- ҳавма noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Thai
1 entries- ชานเมือง noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Tibetan
2 entries- ཉེ་སྐོར་གྲོང་ཚོ noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- མཐའ་སྐོར་གྲོང་ཚོ noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Turkish
4 entries- banliyö noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- bölge noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- kenar mahalle noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- mahalle noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
Ukrainian
2 entries- передмі́стя noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- при́город noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Urdu
1 entries- مُضافات noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Uzbek
2 entries- atrof noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- shahar atrofi noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Vietnamese
4 entries- ngoại thành noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- ngoại ô noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- phường noun (Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- vùng ven đô noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Yiddish
2 entries- בײַשטאָט noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
- פֿאָרשטאָט noun (area on the periphery of a city or large town)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
I have to commute all the way from a distant suburb.
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The other day something horrible happened in a Tokyo suburb.
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They decided to settle in a suburb of London.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.