noun ·Moderate ·College level
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"The Germanic nations, in their invasions of Italy, introduced the appellation [borgo] into that country, where it was generally applied to the houses and streets built outside the gates of a walled town, corresponding to the Roman suburbia."
"Nicolette loved living in suburbia: not too far from the city, but not too close, either."
The suburbs as a whole and all that characterizes or pertains to them; (sometimes derogatory) the suburbs as encapsulated or represented by the typical characteristics or qualities of the people living there, especially complacency, conformity, conservativeness, dullness, etc.
Common synonyms include: banlieue, barrio, black ghetto, blighted area, boom town, borough.
Nicolette loved living in suburbia: not too far from the city, but not too close, either.
Pronounced /səˈbɜː.bɪ.ə/.
PIE word *upó From suburb + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns, the names of collections of things, etc.), perhaps modelled after Latin suburbia (“suburbs”), the plural of suburbium.