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suburbs
THESAURUS
suburbs
Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, alentours, ambience, ambit, barrio, black ghetto, blighted area, borderlands, business district, central city, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, city center, compass, context, core, downtown, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, fringes, gestalt, ghetto, greenbelt, habitat, inner city, midtown, milieu, neighborhood, outposts, outskirts, perimeter, periphery, precincts, purlieus, red-light district, residential district, run-down neighborhood, shopping center, situation, skid road, skid row, slum, slums, suburbia, surroundings, tenderloin, tenement district, total environment, uptown, urban blight, vicinage, vicinityROGET THESAURUS
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Nearness
N nearness, proximity, propinquity, vicinity, vicinage, neighborhood, adjacency, contiguity, short distance, short step, short cut, earshot, close quarters, stone's throw, bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot, hair's breadth, span, purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours, suburbs, confines, banlieue, borderland, whereabouts, bystander, neighbor, borderer, approach, convergence, perihelion, near, nigh, close at hand, near at hand, close, neighboring, bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining, proximate, proximal, at hand, handy, near the mark, near run, home, intimate, near, nigh, hard by, fast by, close to, close upon, hard upon, at the point of, next door to, within reach, within call, within hearing, within earshot, within an ace of, but a step, not far from, at no great distance, on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of, in the environs, at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side, on the tip of one's tongue, under one's nose, within a stone's throw, in sight of, in presence of, at close quarters, cheek by jole, cheek by jowl, beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete, in juxtaposition, yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of, on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to, in the way, about, hereabouts, thereabouts, roughly, in round numbers, approximately, approximatively, as good as, well-nigh.Circumjacence
N circumjacence, circumambience, environment, encompassment, atmosphere, medium, surroundings, outpost, border, girdle, outskirts, boulebards, suburbs, purlieus, precincts, faubourgs, environs, entourage, banlieue, neighborhood, vicinage, vicinity, circumjacent, circumambient, circumfluent, ambient, surrounding, circumferential, suburban, around, about, without, on every side, on all sides, right and left, all round, round about.Also see definition of "suburbs" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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