suburban

/səˈbɜː(ɹ)bən/

noun 2adj 1

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ADJ.

good, indispensable, live, local, negative, normal, quiet, unavoidable

Many families choose to live in suburban areas because they prefer a quieter lifestyle.

VERB + SUBURBAN

adapted, found, like, lived, lives, looks, patrol, radiate

She lived in a suburban area just outside the city where housing was more affordable.

SUBURBAN + NOUN

algiers, america, area, bookstore, college, essex, highway-, housewife

We moved to a quiet suburban area outside the city last year.

PREP.

from, from, in, in

I grew up in a suburban neighborhood where everyone knew each other.

ADV.

often, only, quickly

The population only quickly expanded into suburban areas during the 1950s housing boom.

Definitions

adj

Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city; of or relating to suburbia or the suburbs.

Suburban villas, highway-ſide retreats, / That dread th' encroachment of our growing ſtreets, / Tight boxes, neatly ſaſh'd, and in a blaze / With all a July ſun's collected rays, / Delight the citizen, who gaſping there, / Breathes clouds of duſt and calls it country air.

Not only has suburban life separated the great concentrated masses of our people from their birthright of meadows, fields and woods; of Nature, in her untamed splendour and mystery, most of them have never had so much as a momentary glimpse.

noun

A person who lives in a suburb.

An automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis.

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Not only has suburban life separated the great concentrated masses of our people from their birthright of meadows, fields and woods; of Nature, in her untamed splendour and mystery, most of them have

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They form part of the vast electrification and reconstruction schemes which have been in hand for a number of years at Liverpool Street, and in suburban Essex, and include the rearrangement of tracks,

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Cars are indispensable to suburban life.

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Dan was assigned to patrol a suburban area.

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Layla looked like a normal suburban housewife.

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