Suburban
/səˈbɜː(ɹ)bən/ adj, noun
adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who lives in a suburb.
- 2 An automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis.
Adjective
- 1 Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city; of or relating to suburbia or the suburbs.
"Suburban villas, highway-ſide retreats, / That dread th' encroachment of our growing ſtreets, / Tight boxes, neatly ſaſh'd, and in a blaze / With all a July ſun's collected rays, / Delight the citizen, who gaſping there, / Breathes clouds of duſt and calls it country air."
Adjective
- 1 relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs wordnet
Example
More examples"Cars are indispensable to suburban life."
Etymology
From Latin suburbanus, from prefix sub- (“under”) + urbs (“city”) + -anus (“adjective suffix”), equivalent to sub- + urban.