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suburban, a. and n.|səˈbɜːbən|
[ad. L. suburbānus, f. sub sub- 11 + urbs city: see -an. Cf. F. suburbain, It., Sp., Pg. suburbano.]
A. adj.
1. Of or belonging to a suburb or the suburbs of a town; living, situated, operating, or carried on in the suburbs.
a1625Fletcher Faithf. Friends ii. ii, To yield At first encounter may befit the state Of some suburbane strumpet, but not her. 1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Apparator 131 A pestilent headpeece hee ha 's to blow up suburbane traders: with whom hee trucks. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal (1673) 18/2 The Rich had stately Monuments on the sides of the publick ways in their own suburbane fields. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 243 Athens..native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or Suburban, studious walks and shades. 1751T. Edwards in Richardson's Corr. (1804) III. 19, I will hope that..the air of your agreeable suburbane North-End, will restore you. 1781Cowper Retirem. 481 Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, That dread th' encroachment of our growing streets. 1824Loudon Encycl. Gard. (ed. 2) §7285 The suburban villa..is of limited extent, but contains a small kitchen-garden and stables... Such villas are occupied more by professional men and artists. 1837Lockhart Scott I. iv. 120 His chosen intimate..continued to be..Mr. John Irving—his suburban walks with whom have been recollected so tenderly. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 351 They reside..at suburban country seats surrounded by shrubberies and flower gardens. 1855Ibid. xviii. IV. 243 Among the suburban residences of our kings, that which stood at Greenwich had long held a distinguished place. 1883Law Times LXXV. 130/2 The speculative builder..has become the pest of suburban London.
2. transf. Having characteristics that are regarded as belonging especially to life in the suburbs of a city; having the inferior manners, the narrowness of view, etc., attributed to residents in suburbs.
1817Byron Beppo lxvi, A fifth's look's vulgar, dowdyish, and suburban. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Worship Wks. (Bohn) II. 403 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house.
3. = suburbicarian. rare.
1858J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 204 Two names are given in.., those of Hyppolytus, a suburban clergyman, and of Caius, whose charge lay within the city itself.
4. Special collocations: suburban line, a railway line which runs between the centre of a city and its suburbs; suburban neurosis, a form of neurosis said to occur esp. among suburban housewives which is associated with feelings of boredom, loneliness, and lack of personal fulfilment; suburban sprawl, the straggling and often ill-planned expansion of the suburbs of a city over a large area of adjacent countryside; an instance of this.
1869Bradshaw's Railway Man. XXI. 379 The *Suburban line, from the Salt River station to Wynberg, is now open. 1926Times 6 May 3/1 Skeleton services were run on main and suburban lines, and more trains are promised to-day. 1972C. Fremlin Appointment with Yesterday i. 10 South Coast, this [ticket] office... Suburban line, opposite Platform Six.
1938S. J. L. Taylor in Lancet 26 Mar. 759/1, I hope to show that environment plays no less a part in the production of what I venture to call ‘the *suburban neurosis’ than it does in the production of physical disease. 1962Listener 6 Dec. 948/2 The so-called ‘suburban neurosis’ is due to society's having failed to provide a constructive role for these mothers. 1983Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Child Psychiatry XXII. 172 (heading) The nuclear family, suburban neurosis, and iatrogenesis in Auckland mothers of young children.
1949H. Blumenfeld in Social Forces Oct. 59/1 The Association poses the alternative of ‘self-contained towns’ versus ‘*suburban sprawl’. 1958Listener 19 June 1022/3 The transformation of most of the country into a gigantic suburban sprawl. 1972Country Life 6 Jan. 18/1 The suburban sprawl that characterises much of the eastern seaboard of the northern United States.
B. n.
†1. n. pl. Suburbs. Obs.
a1340Hampole Psalter Cant. 520 Þe suburbanys of gomor.
2. a. A suburban residence. b. A resident in the suburbs.
1841S. Bamford Passages in Life of Radical (ed. 2) I. xxxiv. 203 He passed on, leaving those warm-hearted suburbans capering and whooping like mad. 1856Newman Callista xxii. 195 Can truth give me a handsome suburban with some five hundred slaves. 1906Westm. Gaz. 1 Sept. 3/1 All good suburbans congratulate themselves on the choice of their abode. 1926R. Macaulay Crewe Train ii. vi. 129 Don't waste time arguing about the accepted premises of life, of which one is that suburbans are dull. 1977Transatlantic Rev. lx. 197 She laughed..being confused by Mr and Mrs Superb the Semi-Detached Suburbans strolling their Sealyhams, for woodpeckers.
Hence suˈburbandom, -hood, suburban conditions of life, the residents of the suburbs collectively; suˈburbanism, the characteristics of suburban life; a suburban peculiarity; suˈburbanite, a resident in the suburbs; suburˈbanity, the condition of being suburban; an instance of this, a suburban characteristic, feature, locality; suˌburbaniˈzation, the act of suburbanizing or the condition of being suburbanized; an instance of this; suˈburbanize v. trans., to render suburban; suˈburbanized ppl. a., rendered suburban; suˈburbanly adv.
1902Speaker 13 Dec. 284/1 The respectabilities and genteelness of mere *suburbandom.
1879Macm. Mag. XLI. 188/1 There is..another side to this story, which the *suburbanhood of Manchester would like greatly to tell.
1888Mrs. H. Ward R. Elsmere ii. xi, A county [sc. Surrey], which is throughout a strange mixture of *suburbanism and the desert. 1907Sat. Rev. 6 Apr. 423 She..is a symbol of middle-aged suburbanism rejuvenated and illuminated by fresh experience. 1911Tyrrell in 19th Cent. Apr. 693 There seem to have been suburbanisms and provincialisms, like the Praenestine vulgarism..of dropping the first syllable of a word.
1890Advance (Chicago) 20 Feb., Much dissatisfaction among *suburbanites over the proposed change. 1896Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 7/2 The Lord Mayor's Show brings out the suburbanite in full force.
1623Cockeram, Neighbourhood in the Subburbs, *Suburbannitie. 1833New Monthly Mag. XXXVII. 50 The pipe he smoked of an evening, under certain circumstances of suburbanity. 1848Illustr. Lond. News 17 June 387/1 Erith is the prettiest of pretty suburbanities. 1884Spectator 4 Oct. 1320/2 Suburbanity, with its combined characteristics of money, scandal, and church going.
1926Daily Tel. 3 Aug., In the urbanisation or *suburbanisation of the country motor transport is destined to be even more effective than railways. 1938Archit. Rev. LXXXIII. 216/3 It is gratifying to find Country Life adding its own opposition to a tendency which, if not soon halted, will result in literally nation-wide suburbanization. 1951N. Pevsner Middlesex 55 Finchley Parish had only 1,500 inhabitants in 1801 and still only 7,000 in 1871. Thereafter suburbanization set in. 1978H. Carpenter Inklings iv. 64 They still went on walking tours, until the increasing suburbanisation of the countryside and the outbreak of war brought that annual event finally to a halt.
1893C. E. Norton in Lowell's Lett. (1894) I. 2 The whole district, though so near the city, was not yet *suburbanized. 1901Daily Chron. 13 May 5/2 The district is..becoming suburbanised and unfit for sport. 1921Edin. Rev. Jan. 111 The local feeling of the less *suburbanised Home Counties continues to object. 1977Time 25 Apr. 35/2 We are going to go on with suburbanized homes.
1963S. S. Ikramullah Purdah to Parliament ii. 17 The mentality and attitude of those who lived in these parts were also *suburbanly correct. |