Suburban

Quick meaning: Suburban is an adjective meaning Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city; of or relating to suburbia or the suburbs.

Meaning

Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city; of or relating to suburbia or the suburbs.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

Tiffany Henyard’s tumultuous tenure as mayor of south suburban Dolton is coming to an end, and voters were very clear about ousting her.

Not only has suburban life separated the great concentrated masses of our people from their birthright of meadows, fields and woods; of Nature, in her untamed splendour and mystery, most of them have never had so much as a momentary glimpse.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• suburbans

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include urban, rural, peripheral, outlying, break, escalade.

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