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单词 suburbian
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suburbianadj.n.

Brit. /səˈbəːbɪən/, U.S. /səˈbərbiən/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Probably also partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin suburbium , -an suffix; suburbia n., -an suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin suburbium suburb n. + -an suffix. In later use probably also partly < suburbia n. + -an suffix. Compare earlier suburbial adj., suburban adj., and (with the use as noun) suburban n.
A. adj.
= suburban adj., spec. (in early use often with negative sense) with reference to the immoral or licentious practices of the suburbs, esp. of London (cf. suburb n. Compounds 2); (now) of or relating to suburbia.In the 17th cent. the more common form; later superseded by suburban.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [adjective]
golec888
canga1225
light?c1225
wooinga1382
nicea1387
riota1400
wantonc1400
wrenec1400
lachesc1450
loose?a1500
licentious1555
libertine1560
prostitute1569
riggish1569
wide1574
slipper1581
slippery1586
sportive1595
gay1597
Cyprian1598
suburb1598
waggish1600
smicker1606
suburbian1606
loose-living1607
wantona1627
free-living1632
libertinous1632
loose-lived1641
Corinthian1642
akolastic1656
slight1685
fast1699
freea1731
brisk1740
shy1787
slang1818
randomc1825
fastish1832
loosish1846
slummya1860
velocious1872
fly1880
slack1951
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [adjective] > suburbs
suburbedc1450
suburban1583
suburbian1606
suburbicary1655
suburbican1659
peri-urban1935
out-city1939
1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 39 There is yet to be seene the place of his nourcery, within a suburbian house belonging to his Auncesters [L. in avito suburbano].
1609 W. Rowley Search for Money (1842) 37 We should returne back to the suburbian bordello (before mentioned).
1653 Consid. Dissolving Court of Chancery 47 Some of the Middlesex or Suburbian Justices.
1675 T. Duffett Mock-tempest iii. i. 23 Not pledge me, thou salt Suburbian Hackney, not pledge me.
1732 London Mag. 1 334 Give some share of credit to the out-lying night-walkers, and Suburbian ghosts.
1760 Crit. Rev. Apr. 322 Not the great orator of Clare-market, whilom famed for true suburbian eloquence could speak stouter.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough xviii. 245 Suburbian Prospects, where the Traveller stops To see the sloping Tenement on props.
1875 Visitor's Guide New Orleans 41 The lake, church spires, and beautiful suburbian residences.
1961 Washington (Pa.) Reporter 21 June 16/4 Bud Mellott plays..the suburbian husband of a 5-year childless marriage.
2001 C. Gutleben Nostalgic Postmodernism ii. 58 Her middle-class, suburbian, slightly shabby environment.
B. n.
A person who resides in a suburb. Now also: a resident of suburbia.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > inhabitant of suburbs
suburban1468
suburbian1606
suburbanite1855
Metrolander1926
subtopian1958
1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. F4v All the Brokers in Long-Lane, Houns-ditch, or else wher, wt all the rest of their Colleagued suburbians, that deale vpon ouerworne commodities.
1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper iv. i. 40 Down with the Suburbians, down with 'em.
a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. 103 A true Profligate Suburbian.
1760 S. Foote Minor i. 13 You cockneys now beat us suburbians at our own weapons.
1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 253 The bargees, and butchers, and labourers, and scum of the suburbians.
1903 ‘A. McNeill’ Egregious Eng. (ed. 3) xiii. 134 Unlike the male suburbian, the female suburbian will talk to her neighbours.
1988 Mass. Rev. 29 343 The suburbian has just been convicted of some drug trafficking offense.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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