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suburban

English

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Etymology

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From Latin suburbanus, from prefix sub- (“under”) + urbs (“city”) + -anus (“adjective suffix”), equivalent to sub- +‎ urban.

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Adjective

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suburban (comparative more suburban, superlative most suburban)

  1. Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city; of or relating to suburbia or the suburbs.
    • 1782, William Cowper, “Retirement”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] 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.
    • 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 13:
      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.
    • 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.
    • 2025 February 25, Gabriel Castillo, Jenna Barnes, Ben Bradley, Michael Johnson, Erik Runge, “Defeated in Dolton: Trustee Jason House beats incumbent Mayor Tiffany Henyard by landslide in primary”, in WGN-TV‎[1]:
      Tiffany Henyard’s tumultuous tenure as mayor of south suburban Dolton is coming to an end, and voters were very clear about ousting her.

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Noun

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suburban (plural suburbans)

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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English suburban, from Latin suburbanus.

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suburban (comparative lebih suburban, superlative paling suburban)

  1. (urban studies) suburban

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suburban (plural suburban-suburban)

  1. (urban studies) suburb
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin suburbanus.

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suburban m or n (feminine singular suburbană, masculine plural suburbani, feminine and neuter plural suburbane)

  1. suburban

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Declension of suburban
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite suburban suburbană suburbani suburbane
definite suburbanul suburbana suburbanii suburbanele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite suburban suburbane suburbani suburbane
definite suburbanului suburbanei suburbanilor suburbanelor
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