All 8 Uses
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- For Ashima, migrating to the suburbs feels more drastic, more distressing than the move from Calcutta to Cambridge had been.†
Chpt 3 *suburbs = residential areas located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- His father switches off the music and calls Dilip and Maya Nandi, who now live in a suburb twenty minutes away and have a little boy of their own.†
Chpt 3suburb = a residential area located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- They have met so many Bengalis that there is rarely a Saturday free, so that for the rest of his life Gogol's childhood memories of Saturday evenings will consist of a single, repeated scene: thirty-odd people in a three-bedroom suburban house, the children watching television or playing board games in a basement, the parents eating and conversing in the Bengali their children don't speak among themselves.†
Chpt 3suburban = relating to a residential area located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- He wishes he could wait with her at South Station for her bus to Maine, but he has a commuter train to catch in ten minutes to take him to the suburbs.†
Chpt 5suburbs = residential areas located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- It turns out Pamela is from Boston as well, but when he tells her the name of the suburb where his parents live Pamela shakes her head.†
Chpt 6suburb = a residential area located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- Eventually, on weekends, they begin to visit the homes of their parents' friends who live in surrounding suburbs.†
Chpt 7suburbs = residential areas located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- He can imagine the large suburban house her family owned; the china cabinet in the dining room, her mother's prized possession; the large public high school in which she had excelled but that she had miserably attended.†
Chpt 8suburban = relating to a residential area located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- THEY MARRY WITHIN A YEAR, at a DoubleTree hotel in New Jersey, close to the suburb where her parents live.†
Chpt 9suburb = a residential area located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
Definitions:
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(1)
(suburban) relating to a residential area located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)