What does exurb mean?
Exurb means A residential area beyond the suburbs..
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/ˈɛɡˌzɜːb/ · noun
A residential area beyond the suburbs..
I had my first taste of a collapsing exurb last night.
Lots of cities are exurbs of other cities for reasons of finance or infrastructure.
Miles of exurbs bristle with hundreds—no, thousands—of apartment towers. These monoliths soar like gigantic dominoes into a dust-whitened sky. The area was hand-tilled cornfields when Lui grew up in Xi’an in the 1980s.
Use exurb when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Exurb means A residential area beyond the suburbs..
Common synonyms include exurbia.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I had my first taste of a collapsing exurb last night.
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