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- 1. of or characteristic of a suburb: "suburban life"
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SUBURBAN meaning: 1. relating to a suburb: 2. used to suggest that something is boring and has no excitement: 3…. Learn more.
1 day ago · If you describe something as suburban, you mean that it is dull and conventional. His clothes are conservative and suburban. ...ghastly good taste and suburban gentility.
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Origin of suburban 1 First recorded in 1615–25; from Latin suburbānus “located close to a city (especially to Rome),” equivalent to sub- + urb- (stem of urbs “city”) + -ānus adjective suffix; see origin at sub- , urban
3 days ago · 1. countable noun. A suburb of a city or large town is a smaller area which is part of the city or large town but is outside its centre . Anna was born in 1923 in Ardwick, a suburb of Manchester. [ + of] ...the north London suburbs of Harrow, Barnet and Enfield. 2. plural noun [oft in the N]
a district or area of land lying immediately outside a city or town, esp. a smaller residential community. the suburbs, [ plural] an area composed of such districts, or such areas thought of as a group, as with respect to their political leanings: The Republican candidate was leading in the suburbs.
noun. /ˈsʌbərb/ (informal the burbs [plural]) an area where people live that is outside the center of a city a suburb of Atlanta an Atlanta suburb They live in the suburbs. Topic Collocations. Definitions on the go. Look up any word in the dictionary offline, anytime, anywhere with the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app.
