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[ suh-bur-bee-uh ] / səˈbɜr bi ə / SEE SYNONYMS FOR suburbia ON THESAURUS.COM
nounsuburbs collectively. suburbanites collectively. the social or cultural aspects of life in the suburbs. Origin of suburbiaFirst recorded in 1895–1900; suburb + -ia historical usage of suburbiaSee urban. Words nearby suburbiasuburb, suburban, suburbanite, suburbanization, suburbanize, suburbia, suburbicarian, subvaginal, subvene, subvention, sub verbo Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for suburbiaHostility to the non-urban regions includes a detestation of suburbia. Time to Bring Back the Truman Democrats|Joel Kotkin|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST Growing up in that suburbia and air of pop culture, these images stayed with me like a weird dream. Tim Burton Talks ‘Big Eyes,’ His Taste For the Macabre, and the ‘Beetlejuice’ Sequel|Marlow Stern|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST Camberwell (in South London) was still seen as suburbia in the 1920s. Sarah Waters: Queen of the Tortured Lesbian Romance|Tim Teeman|September 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST He documented America as it really was, from the political unrest to the rise of suburbia. Garry Winogrand’s American Hustle Comes To The Met|Justin Jones|June 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
More recent critiques of suburbia have focused as well on their alleged vulnerability in an energy-constrained era. The Triumph of Suburbia: Despite Downtown Hype, Americans Choose Sprawl|Joel Kotkin|April 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST A Radical out and out, she learnt to speak with horror of Suburbia. A Room With A View|E. M. Forster Such are the atrocities upon which Suburbia has to base its ideas of one of the most imposing of trees. Wayside and Woodland Trees|Edward Step He bore the stamp of suburbia all over him, and his accent was peculiarly that of London. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo|William Le Queux Suburbia often makes the excuse that their pocket-handkerchief of a garden is much too small to be made beautiful. Myths & Legends of Japan|F. Hadland (Frederick Hadland) Davis He spoke with a cultured English accent more than a Cockney or a suburbia accent. Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
British Dictionary definitions for suburbia
nounsuburbs or the people living in them considered as an identifiable community or class in society the life, customs, etc, of suburbanites Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to suburbiaperiphery, environs, hinterland, outskirts, countryside, village, outpost, vicinity, suburb, edge, limit, purlieu, boundary, border, sticks, purlieus, country, fringe, hamlet, precinct |