County and Suburb

County

County noun - (United States) the largest administrative district within a state.
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Synonyms for County

Suburb and county are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Suburb" instead a noun "County".

Suburb

Suburb noun - A residential district located on the outskirts of a city.
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Synonyms for Suburb

County and suburb are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "County" instead a noun "Suburb".

Nearby Words: suburban, suburbia

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.

Both words in one sentence

  • Stepford Suburbia 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.
  • Useful Notes / Houston 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)
  • Useful Notes / Detroit Madonna (born in Bay City [116 miles to the north], but raised in Rochester Hills, a suburb in Oakland County)
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