County
County noun - (United States) the largest administrative district within a state.
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How words are described
| particular | particular county | particular suburb |
| native | native county | native suburb |
| small | small county | small suburb |
| entire | entire county | entire suburb |
| Other adjectives: real, large, little, prosperous, former, wealthy, affluent, fictional, outlying, next, nearby, modern, metropolitan, neighboring, western, unnamed, southern. | ||
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Much like the Detroit example from above, pretty much any suburb of Milwaukee that's in a county other than Milwaukee County (and even a few that are) could be described as this.
Source: Stepford Suburbia -
Mission Bend - one of the few unincorporated Areas in Houston's ETJ, thus maintaining Houston's link to Fort Bend county, a majority White suburb (as if there is any other kind around here)
Source: Useful Notes / Houston -
Madonna (born in Bay City [116 miles to the north], but raised in Rochester Hills, a suburb in Oakland County)
Source: Useful Notes / Detroit
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Suburb and County. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/county/suburb
County & Suburb. N.p., 2016. Web. 02 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/county/suburb>.
Suburb or County. 2016. Accessed August 02, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/county/suburb.
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