"suburban" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /səˈbɜː(ɹ)bən/ Forms: more suburban [comparative], most suburban [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bən Etymology: From Latin suburbanus, from prefix sub- (“under”) + urbs (“city”) + -anus (“adjective suffix”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|suburbanus}} Latin suburbanus Head templates: {{en-adj}} suburban (comparative more suburban, superlative most suburban)
  1. Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city. Translations (relating to outskirts of a city): пры́гарадны (prýharadny) (Belarusian), прыме́скі (prymjéski) (Belarusian), от предградията (ot predgradijata) (Bulgarian), suburbà (Catalan), 郊區的 (Chinese Mandarin), 郊区的 (jiāoqū de) (Chinese Mandarin), 市郊的 (shìjiāo de) (Chinese Mandarin), předměstský (Czech), voorstedelijk (Dutch), esikaupunki- (Finnish), lähiö- (Finnish), suburbain (French), banlieusard (French), vorstädtisch (German), Vorort- (German), προαστιακός (proastiakós) (Greek), külvárosi (Hungarian), fo-uirbeach (Irish), bruachbhailteach (Irish), fo-bhailteach (Irish), suburbano [masculine] (Italian), 郊外の (kōgai no) (alt: こうがいの) (Japanese), қала айналасындағы (qala ainalasyndağy) (Kazakh), қала жаны (qala jany) (Kazakh), 교외의 (gyooe'ui) (Korean), suburbānus (Latin), podmiejski (Polish), suburbano (Portuguese), suburban (Romanian), при́городный (prígorodnyj) (Russian), за́городный (zágorodnyj) (Russian), при̏градскӣ [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), prȉgradskī [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), predmestský (Slovak), suburbano (Spanish), förorts- (Swedish), приміськи́й (prymisʹkýj) (Ukrainian), передміськи́й (peredmisʹkýj) (Ukrainian), підміськи́й (pidmisʹkýj) (Ukrainian), ngoại ô (Vietnamese)

Noun

IPA: /səˈbɜː(ɹ)bən/ Forms: suburbans [plural]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bən Etymology: From Latin suburbanus, from prefix sub- (“under”) + urbs (“city”) + -anus (“adjective suffix”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|suburbanus}} Latin suburbanus Head templates: {{en-noun}} suburban (plural suburbans)
  1. A person who lives in a suburb.
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  2. An automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis.
    Sense id: en-suburban-en-noun-F2pbgxE2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: suburb, environs, periphery

Inflected forms

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    {
      "word": "cyburban"
    },
    {
      "word": "presuburban"
    },
    {
      "word": "semisuburban"
    },
    {
      "word": "suburbandom"
    },
    {
      "word": "suburbanhood"
    },
    {
      "word": "suburbanise"
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    {
      "word": "suburbanism"
    },
    {
      "word": "suburbanite"
    },
    {
      "word": "suburbanitis"
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    {
      "word": "suburbanity"
    },
    {
      "word": "suburbanize"
    },
    {
      "word": "suburbanly"
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    {
      "word": "suburbanness"
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      "word": "surburbanite"
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      "word": "unsuburban"
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  "etymology_text": "From Latin suburbanus, from prefix sub- (“under”) + urbs (“city”) + -anus (“adjective suffix”).",
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      "form": "more suburban",
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        {
          "ref": "1782, William Cowper, “Retirement”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 282:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 44:",
          "text": "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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      "ipa": "/səˈbɜː(ɹ)bən/"
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    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "prýharadny",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "пры́гарадны"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "prymjéski",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "прыме́скі"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ot predgradijata",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "от предградията"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "suburbà"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "郊區的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiāoqū de",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "郊区的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shìjiāo de",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "市郊的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "předměstský"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "voorstedelijk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "esikaupunki-"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "lähiö-"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "suburbain"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "banlieusard"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "vorstädtisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "Vorort-"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "proastiakós",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "προαστιακός"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "külvárosi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "fo-uirbeach"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "bruachbhailteach"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "fo-bhailteach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "suburbano"
    },
    {
      "alt": "こうがいの",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kōgai no",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "郊外の"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "qala ainalasyndağy",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "қала айналасындағы"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "qala jany",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "қала жаны"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gyooe'ui",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "교외의"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "suburbānus"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "podmiejski"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "suburbano"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "suburban"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prígorodnyj",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "при́городный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zágorodnyj",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "за́городный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "при̏градскӣ"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "prȉgradskī"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "predmestský"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "suburbano"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "förorts-"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "prymisʹkýj",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "приміськи́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "peredmisʹkýj",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "передміськи́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pidmisʹkýj",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "підміськи́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "relating to outskirts of a city",
      "word": "ngoại ô"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "suburban"
  ],
  "word": "suburban"
}

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      "name": "uder"
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  "etymology_text": "From Latin suburbanus, from prefix sub- (“under”) + urbs (“city”) + -anus (“adjective suffix”).",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "suburbans",
      "tags": [
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "suburb"
    },
    {
      "word": "environs"
    },
    {
      "word": "periphery"
    }
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "A person who lives in a suburb."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "automobile",
          "automobile"
        ],
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          "station wagon",
          "station wagon"
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          "truck",
          "truck"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/səˈbɜː(ɹ)bən/"
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)bən"
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    "suburban"
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  "word": "suburban"
}

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