how to pronounce suburb

/ˈsʌbɚb/

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suburb is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of suburb in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… artistic director of every a suburb is …”

meaning of suburb

A suburb is a town or neighborhood that is not the central business district of a city.

suburb frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word suburb occurs in english on average 4.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics suburb can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that suburb can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;