Usually means: Residential area outside urban core.
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  1. exurb: Merriam-Webster
  2. exurb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exurb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exurb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exurb: Wordnik
  6. exurb: Wiktionary
  7. exurb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. exurb: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. exurb: Dictionary.com
  10. exurb: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. exurb: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Exurb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. exurb: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. exurb: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  A residential area beyond the suburbs.

Similar:
suburb, outskirt, suburbanhood, extradomicile, rurban fringe, purlieu, fringe, surrounding, uptown, outlying, more...

Opposite:
suburb, suburbia, suburban

Types:
bedroom community, boomburb, doughnut city, edge city, gateway city, gridded city, heritage city, mill town, new town, more...
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Similar:
suburb, outskirt, suburbanhood, extradomicile, rurban fringe, purlieu, fringe, surrounding, uptown, outlying, more...

Opposite:
suburb, suburbia, suburban

Types:
bedroom community, boomburb, doughnut city, edge city, gateway city, gridded city, heritage city, mill town, new town, more...



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