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English
Etymology
From Latin suburbanus, from prefix sub- (“under”) + urbs (“city”) + -anus (“adjective suffix”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
suburban (comparative more suburban, superlative most suburban)
- 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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Translations
relating to outskirts of a city
- Belarusian: пры́гарадны (prýharadny), прыме́скі (prymjéski)
- Bulgarian: от предградията (ot predgradijata)
- Catalan: suburbà
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 郊區的 / 郊区的 (zh) (jiāoqū de), 市郊的 (zh) (shìjiāo de)
- Czech: předměstský
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: voorstedelijk
- Esperanto: suburba (eo)
- Finnish: esikaupunki-, lähiö-
- French: suburbain (fr), banlieusard (fr)
- German: vorstädtisch, Vorort- (de)
- Greek: προαστιακός (el) (proastiakós)
- Hungarian: külvárosi (hu)
- Irish: fo-uirbeach, bruachbhailteach, fo-bhailteach
- Italian: suburbano (it) m
- Japanese: 郊外の (ja) (こうがいの, kōgai no)
- Kazakh: қала айналасындағы (qala ainalasyndağy), қала жаны (qala jany)
- Korean: 교외의 (ko) (gyooe'ui)
- Latin: suburbānus
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: podmiejski (pl)
- Portuguese: suburbano (pt)
- Romanian: suburban (ro)
- Russian: при́городный (ru) (prígorodnyj), за́городный (ru) (zágorodnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: при̏градскӣ
- Roman: prȉgradskī (sh)
- Slovak: predmestský
- Spanish: suburbano (es)
- Swedish: förorts-
- Ukrainian: приміськи́й (prymisʹkýj), передміськи́й (peredmisʹkýj), підміськи́й (uk) (pidmisʹkýj)
- Vietnamese: ngoại ô (vi)
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Noun
suburban (plural suburbans)
- A person who lives in a suburb.
- 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)
- suburban
Declension