suburban

[sub·ur·ban]

Suburban refers to areas just beyond a city’s border. Your parents might have grown up in the city and then moved to a more suburban area after they had kids.

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Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city.

Adjective
relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs; "surburban population"


a.
Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city.

n.
One who dwells in the suburbs.


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.

Suburban

Sub*ur"ban, n. One who dwells in the suburbs.

Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city.

One who dwells in the suburbs.

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Usage Examples

A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

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Other Usage Examples

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.

In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.

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