please explain

[sk]

the meaning for the word suburb- I need examples.

 

also

 

subdivision- i need examples.

[lummox]

'suburb' means rank weed.

used in a sentence: 'what the dilly-o mutherfuker? you layin some suburb on me when i axed for chronic.'

[vegetablebelay]

Well, you have urban which is the city or ghetto.

Then you have Sub-urban which is a full sized SUV.

Then you have sub-urb or suburb which is generally outside of the city proper, but not so far out that it is rural.

 

Subdivision is a housing development where they've taken a reasonably-sized piece of land and subdivided it into many, many, many, small pieces and put houses on each.

[iain]

Suburb, n: see Gresham

[catbirdseat]

Ballard was the first suburb in the Pacific Northwest, I believe.

[iain]

subdivision, n: see "plex"

[allthumbs]

suburb, a community in an outlying section of a city or, more commonly, a nearby, politically separate municipality with social and economic ties to the central city. In the 20th cent., particularly in the United States, population growth in urban areas has spilled increasingly outside the city limits and concentrated there, resulting in large metropolitan areas where the populations of the suburbs taken together exceed that of the central city.

 

sub·di·vi·sion

n.

1. An act or instance of subdividing (obtain approval of his subdivision of the land)

2. A tract of land subdivided into lots (to provide streets and sewers for the subdivision)

3. A part made by subdividing (as prescribed in subdivision one of this section)

[sk]

suburb, a community in an outlying section of a city or, more commonly, a nearby, politically separate municipality with social and economic ties to the central city. In the 20th cent., particularly in the United States, population growth in urban areas has spilled increasingly outside the city limits and concentrated there, resulting in large metropolitan areas where the populations of the suburbs taken together exceed that of the central city.

 

sub·di·vi·sion

n.

1. An act or instance of subdividing (obtain approval of his subdivision of the land)

2. A tract of land subdivided into lots (to provide streets and sewers for the subdivision)

3. A part made by subdividing (as prescribed in subdivision one of this section)

 

Thank you trask

 

HA see we were both right

[lummox]

bah! i like my definition better.

[allthumbs]

bah! i like my definition better.

stiffle it, spicoli

[b-rock]

for future reference, www.dictionary.com

[sk]

for future reference, www.dictionary.com

I was more looking for a consensus of percieved meaning

[marylou]

Ballard was the first suburb in the Pacific Northwest, I believe.

 

Ballard was its own city until 1907.

[arlen]

from a google search:

 

The word urban comes from the Latin word urbanns, which is a derivative of urbs 'city' (a word of unknown origin.) It was preceded into English by urbane, which is essentially the same word, but came via Old French urbaine. It was originally used as urban is now, but after urban arrived it gradually took the metaphorical path to 'smooth, sophisticated'. Urbane meant having the manners thought to be characteristic of townspeople: courteous, refined and elegant. This definition was first recorded in 1623 in Cockeram's Dictionary.

 

The derivate suburb, suburbe before 1325, comes from the Latin word suburbium and dates back to the 14th century, but was only infrequently used before the 1800s. Suburban, another derivate, is borrowed from the Latin suburbanus (near a city). This word dates back to the 17th century. Before 1625 it had the meaning: of, relating to, or in a suburb.

 

Today urban is used when referring to something that is related to or characteristic of a city. When we talk about suburb we mean those parts that lie immediately outside a town or a city.

 

Sub - below, near + urbs, genitive urbis - city

 

Sub- below, near + urbanus - urban

 

The word suburb often has a negative ring to it. Many people have preconceived notions about people living in the suburbs. It could be that they are dumber, fight a lot or something like that. In the 'Shorter Oxford English Dictionary', Vol.II, I found a definition of the word suburban from 1817:

 

"Having the inferior manners, the narrowness of view etc. attributed to residents in suburbs."

 

So while urbane meant having manners described as courteous, refined and elegant, the derivate suburban got the meaning of inferior manners and narrowness of view. We can say that the word has gone through pejoration (worsening in meaning) with the development.