Lexic.us

Definition of Suburbia

1. Noun. A residential district located on the outskirts of a city.

2. Noun. Suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture.

Definition of Suburbia

1. Noun. The suburbs and all that pertains to or characterizes them; the suburbs as represented or encapsulated by their typical qualities or characteristics. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Suburbia

1. the suburbs of a city [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suburbia

suburban suburban area suburbanise suburbanised suburbanises suburbanising suburbanite suburbanites suburbanization suburbanize

suburbanized suburbanizes suburbanizing suburbans suburbed suburbia (current term) suburbian suburbians suburbias suburbicarian

suburbs suburethral subvalent subvariance subvariances subvarieties subvariety

Literary usage of Suburbia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway: From the Earliest by James Hardiman (1820)
"... aut suburbia ejusdem, per mare terram vel aquas dulces, ingrediatur vel ... libertates et suburbia ejusdem, et infra villam nostram de ..."

2. Surrey: With Special Articles on the Bird Life, Flowers, Entomology, Geology by Walter Jerrold (1901)
"... "miserable hill"—Approaches to Hind Head—Haslemere and its history—Hind Head: ascent from Haslemere—A hill-top suburbia—Tyn- dall's house—The Portsmouth ..."

3. Surrey by Walter Jerrold (1901)
"... heather—Hind Head's "miserable hill"—Approaches to Hind Head—Haslemere and its history—Hind Head : ascent from Haslemere—A hill-top suburbia—Tyn- dall's ..."

4. Society Snapshots: Taken at Ramdom on a Trip Through the World by Cotsford Dick (1901)
"... IN SWEET suburbia An Afternoon Party at MRS. HIGHBURY DE BARNES' villa residence, " The Wilderness" Bowling Green. MRS. HIGHBURY DE BARNES (hospitably). ..."

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