单词 | suburb |
例句 | suburb noun •a fast-growing suburb just west of Albany|•you'll need a car if you move to the suburbs:residential area, dormitory area, bedroom community, commutershed, commuter belt, exurb | (suburbs) suburbia, the burbs.WORD NOTE suburb An arbitrary selection of suburban labels: edge city: urban facilities out of town; secondary city fragments residential ring, bedroom community, commuter belt: wherefrom commuters come sprawl: irregular exurban development, often connecting urban areas slurb: a suburban slum ribbon development: a thin layer of buildings encrusting the road out of town streetcar suburb: development along public transportation routes technoburb: full-service exurb based on technology centers — SMConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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