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suburban
adj 1: relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs;
"suburban population"
| Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) |
suburban adjective or noun
see suburb
| Oxford English Reference Dictionary |
suburban
adj.
1 of or characteristic of suburbs.
2 derog. provincial, uncultured, or naïve.
Derivatives:
suburbanite n. suburbanize v.tr. (also -ise). suburbanization
n.
Etymology: L suburbanus (as SUBURB)
| Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary |
suburban
Suburban means relating to a suburb.
...a suburban shopping centre in Sydney.
ADJ: ADJ n
| English Explanatory Dictionary |
suburban
səˈbə:bən adj. 1 of or characteristic of suburbs. 2
derog. provincial, uncultured, or naìve. øøsuburbanite n. suburbanize
v.tr. (also -ise). suburbanization n. [L suburbanus (as SUBURB)]
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Suburban \Sub*ur"ban\, a. [L. suburbanus.]
Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the
suburbs of a city. ``Suburban taverns.'' --Longfellow.
Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, . . . Delight
the citizen. --Cowper.
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Suburban \Sub*ur"ban\, n.
One who dwells in the suburbs.
Suburban, NJ
Zip code(s): 07701
| Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "suburban":
ambient, average, bourgeois, burghal, circling, circumambient,
circumferential, circumflex, circumfluent, circumfluous,
circumjacent, citified, city, civic, common, commonplace,
conventional, downtown, embracing, encircling, enclosing,
encompassing, enfolding, enveloping, environing, garden,
garden-variety, interurban, metropolitan, middle-class, midtown,
municipal, neighboring, no great shakes, normal, oppidan, ordinary,
peripheral, plastic, regular, roundabout, run-of-mine,
run-of-the-mill, surrounding, town, unexceptional, unnoteworthy,
unremarkable, unspectacular, uptown, urban, usual, village,
wrapping
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