suburban

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English

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Etymology

From Latin suburbanus, from prefix sub- (under) + urbs (city) + -anus (adjective suffix).

Pronunciation

Adjective

suburban (comparative more suburban, superlative most suburban)

  1. Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city.
    • 1782, William Cowper, “Retirement”, in Poems, London: J Johnson, , →OCLC, page 282:
      Suburban villas, highway-ſide retreats, / That dread th' encroachment of our growing ſtreets, / Tight boxes, neatly ſaſh'd, and in a blaze / With all a July ſun's collected rays, / Delight the citizen, who gaſping there, / Breathes clouds of duſt and calls it country air.
    • 1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 44:
      They form part of the vast electrification and reconstruction schemes which have been in hand for a number of years at Liverpool Street, and in suburban Essex, and include the rearrangement of tracks, of which the Ilford flyover forms part; the modern signal boxes, now needed only at key points; the electric control or sub-stations; and a large electric car shed.

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Noun

suburban (plural suburbans)

  1. A person who lives in a suburb.
  2. An automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis.

See also

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suburbanus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

suburban m or n (feminine singular suburbană, masculine plural suburbani, feminine and neuter plural suburbane)

  1. suburban

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite suburban suburbană suburbani suburbane
definite suburbanul suburbana suburbanii suburbanele
genitive-
dative
indefinite suburban suburbane suburbani suburbane
definite suburbanului suburbanei suburbanilor suburbanelor