Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The suburbs.
- noun Suburbanites considered as a group.
- noun Suburbanites considered as a cultural class.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture
- noun a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
Etymologies
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Examples
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Most people living in "suburbia" in the United States have not seen or ackownledged this trend.
Crime Blog Digest 2006
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As coyotes make themselves at home in suburbia, incidences of coyotes biting people increase.
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As coyotes make themselves at home in suburbia, incidences of coyotes biting people increase.
Special Report: On Coyote Attacks and the Death of Canadian Folk Singer Taylor Mitchell 2009
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She was "aren't there books, multiple books, where the kid is black and just has a life in suburbia and is happy and has pets and parents with jobs and geez, we have a black President, where are the books?"
February Notes Roger Sutton 2009
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The working poor living in suburbia spend a large portion of their incomes on cars.
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It is entirely plausible (likely?) that those living in suburbia, on average, have more developed social skills.
Suburban Happiness, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The working poor living in suburbia spend a large portion of their incomes on cars.
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Witch Way to the Mall, Esther's anthology about witches in suburbia, which just hit the shelves.
State of the me 2009
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The working poor living in suburbia spend a large portion of their incomes on cars.
Small Scale New Urbanism – The Future of Beachwood? « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009
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Here in suburbia grocery shopping is part necessity, part social outing.
Some B-list groceries get an A in taste and affordability 2010
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