suburban

Speech parts

1. suburban - Noun

2. suburban - Adjective

Meaning

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

One who dwells in the suburbs.

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Examples

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

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism. Ezra Pound

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. Anthony Trollope

We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here. B. W. Powe

Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles. John Larroquette

...surely that sneered-at suburban life was more stable than this shadow life...in a country where no involvement was possible...better than the sordid dalliance that soothed me after work? Anthony Burgess

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