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Definition of Suburbed
1. a. Having a suburb or suburbs on its outer part.
Definition of Suburbed
1. Adjective. Having a suburb or suburbs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Suburbed
1. suburb [adj] - See also: suburb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suburbed
Literary usage of Suburbed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"... xi. suburbed (sub'erbd), a. [< suburb + -erf2.] Having a suburb. [Bare. ...
suburbed with a poore market town. R. Carew, Survey of Cornwall, fol. 120. ..."
2. My Diary North and South by William Howard Russell (1863)
"... is certainly, with the exception of Birmingham, the most intensely sooty,
busy, squalid, foul-housed, and vile-suburbed city I have ever seen. ..."
3. Global Challenge and Local Response: Initiatives for Economic Regeneration by Walter B. Stöhr (1990)
"... lovely town . . . crawling, sprawling, slummed, unplanned . . . and smug-suburbed
by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. ..."
4. Scinde, Or, the Unhappy Valley by Richard Francis Burton (1851)
"... the camp—a town of glittering white tents, laid out in mathematical streets
and squares, thronged with gay uniforms and suburbed by guards and pickets, ..."
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