Suburbanite

//səˈbɝ.bə.naɪt// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who lives in the suburbs. informal

    "Don't call me a suburbanite just because I live in Oak Grove!"

  2. 2
    a resident of a suburb wordnet

Example

More examples

"Lots of people who have heard of Betty Friedan misstate her place in history. She was not a man-hater, not a bra-burner, not a sexual confrontationist, touting the birth-control pill. A suburbanite, wife and mother, she would be forced out of the National Organization for Women, which she co-founded, for being too conservative."

Etymology

From suburban + -ite.

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