suburb

Etymology

From Old French suburbe, subburbe, from Latin suburbium (from sub- + urbs (“city”)). Displaced native Old English underburg (literally “sub-” or “under-city”).

noun

1. A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc.
   Coordinate term: exurb
   [London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous. 1818, Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages
   Canton is by no means the only great city in the province. Fo-chan, a kind of suburb to it, about twelve miles distant, has been represented as almost as large. 1843, “Geographical Description of the Chinese Provinces.”, in An Historical and Descriptive Account of China, 3rd edition, volume III, →OCLC, page 37
   At the mountain’s base is the leafy suburb of Kowloon Tong. It has never been a big tourist draw, but in the decade since territorial control returned to China, this quintessentially Hong Kong neighborhood has had many more visitors — and important changes. June 24, 2007, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “Hong Kong Is Reshaped by Mainlanders”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-06-05, Asia Pacific
2. (by extension) The outer part; the environment.
3. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.