{
    "term": "suburb",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an area where people live that is outside the centre of a city",
            "sensetop": "in the suburbs",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)(British English)(British English)(North American English)(informal)(British English, informal)North American English, informal",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a suburb of London"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a London suburb"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They live in the suburbs.",
                    "contextForm": "in the suburbs"
                },
                {
                    "text": "As soon as we can afford it, we'll move to the suburbs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "For a child from the suburbs, a trip to the city was a great adventure."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's renting in a suburb of Boston."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The middle-class suburbs are growing fast."
                },
                {
                    "text": "out beyond the sprawling suburbs"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the coastal suburbs of the capital"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Geography", "Buildings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["outer", "outlying", "inner"],
                "verb + suburb": ["move to"],
                "suburb + verb": ["grow"],
                "preposition": ["from the suburbs", "in a/​the suburb", "in the suburbs"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsʌbɜːb/",
                "audio": "su/suburb/suburb__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsʌbɜːrb/",
                "audio": "su/suburb/suburb__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French suburbe or Latin suburbium, from sub- ‘near to’ + urbs, urb- ‘city’."
}