verb ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To make suburban; to convert or adapt to a suburb. transitive

   "Only in 2007 they are less about pure socialism than a kind of suburbanized version of it."

2. 2
   make suburban in character wordnet
3. 3
   take on suburban character wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

suburbanise

Example

More examples

"Only in 2007 they are less about pure socialism than a kind of suburbanized version of it."

Etymology

From suburban + -ize.

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