suburblessadj.
/ˈsʌbəːbləs/, U.S. /ˈsəbərbləs/ Having no suburbs; without suburbs.
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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 > without
suburbless1650
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine App. i. 190 Ierusalem..being on the East and South suburbless.
1836 Dublin Rev. May 470 Your eye..skims over the suburbless plain..and rests in calm delight upon the purple hills.
1883 Wesleyan-Methodist Mag. July 559/2 Jerusalem could not be described to-day as the almost suburbless city which M. Bovet saw.
1924 Punch 23 July 98/2 A city almost suburbless, a country-girdled town.
1969 J. Jones John Keats's Dream of Truth v. 224 Keats..left his lodgings in Winchester one fine Sunday and walked in the fields outside the suburbless city.
2002 J. Sagar in H.-J. Henket & H. Heynen Back from Utopia 373 The tidy suburbless square of the Master Plan..still gives us our mental picture of Chandigarh.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1650- of a lifetime
- of a light fire
- of a like
- of a morning
- of a mornings
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- of a muchness
- of a night
- of a person's bone
- of a person's bones
- of a person's cost
- of a person's costs
- of a person's gift
- of a person's grace
- of a person's knowledge
- of a person's mercy
- of a person's part
- of a person's retinue
- of a piece
- of a piece with
- of a plume
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