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suburb
  1. A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc.
  2. (by extension) The outer part; the environment.
  3. (Australia, New Zealand) Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “This appeals to me more than living in a soulless outer suburb, far from facilities and employment opportunities.”
      “The base is an enclosed courtyard in the west suburb of the city where over 40 police dogs are kept and trained.”
      “The suburb of Larapinta will expand westwards again this year, first by 30 blocks and ultimately by 260 blocks.”
suburbia
  1. The suburbs and all that pertains to or characterizes them; the suburbs as represented or encapsulated by their typical qualities or characteristics. [from 19th c.]
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This is the heaviest and bleakest view of Australianised suburbia ever represented on local screens.”
      “Orange County is beachfront suburbia, where the sun burns ambition to a crisp.”
      “Well, the big deal is that suburbia is rapidly invading areas that were once considered more natural than man-made.”
suburban
  1. An automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis.
suburbanization
  1. The process of suburbanizing, of population movement from cities to suburbs
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The concept of counterurbanization, as opposed to suburbanization, is relatively recent in international academic literature.”
      “Similar postwar suburbanization occurred in cities such as Marseille, Lyon, Lille, and Bordeaux.”
      “Lower tax rates on the fringes of an urban area typically encourage suburbanization.”
suburbanism
  1. suburban lifestyles and attitudes generally
  2. Examples:
    1. “The roads aren't paved, because if we obliterate the countryside we risk the sort of suburbanism we are hoping to escape.”
      “All three reconstructions involve willing a return of an urban, industrial era of great entrepreneurs and industrialists, in a country dominated by rent-seeking and suburbanism, as if they can rebuild it back into existence.”
      “Vampirism and suburbanism are ostensibly incompatible but actually symbiotic.”
suburbanisation
  1. Alternative form of suburbanization
  2. Examples:
    1. “The economic reorientation in progress is resulting in a phenomenon of suburbanisation and remixing that is starting to evolve in town centres.”
      “Despite the rapid suburbanisation of many parts of the state, the flag is a sensitive issue.”
      “For much of the 20th century cities across the rich world lost population thanks to suburbanisation.”
suburbian
  1. A person from the suburbs.
suburbanite
  1. (informal) Someone who dwells in suburbia.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “When a British suburbanite sets off with a shotgun to see his ex-wife he doesn't make a song and dance about it.”
      “Basically it's the true story of a suburbanite gardener who began to notice that as she gardened on her property, nature began to leave.”
      “The highly strung suburbanite whose picket-fence life is not as perfect as it seems.”
suburbs
  1. The populated area surrounding a city.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I love exploring the suburbs of this city, as they offer a peaceful retreat from the hustle and bustle of downtown.”
      “The house in the suburbs, the sense of life being easy and calm, it was a little dull but fulfilling.”
      “Blue jays prefer living in evergreen forests, but they can also be found in farmlands, groves, and suburbs.”
suburbs
  1. plural of suburb
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I love exploring the suburbs of this city, as they offer a peaceful retreat from the hustle and bustle of downtown.”
      “The house in the suburbs, the sense of life being easy and calm, it was a little dull but fulfilling.”
      “Blue jays prefer living in evergreen forests, but they can also be found in farmlands, groves, and suburbs.”
suburbanisations
suburbanizations
suburbanisms
  1. plural of suburbanism
suburbanites
  1. plural of suburbanite
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Affluent suburbanites create gated enclosures not to pursue profit but in the name of community.”
      “I would have thought that suburbanites would be the very last to indulge in such a cockeyed fanciful endeavour.”
      “New urban infrastructures required by the arrival of suburbanites were added to the traditional image of Trait-CarrĂ©.”
suburbians
  1. plural of suburbian
suburbans
  1. plural of suburban
suburbias
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