suburbia

[ suh-bur-bee-uh ]

noun

1. suburbs collectively.
2. suburbanites collectively.
3. the social or cultural aspects of life in the suburbs.

suburbia

/ səˈbɜːbɪə /

noun

1. suburbs or the people living in them considered as an identifiable community or class in society
2. the life, customs, etc, of suburbanites

Word History and Origins

Origin of suburbia¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; suburb + -ia

Example Sentences

This study conducted by Justin Brown determined that during the 2004 to 2005 nesting season in suburbia Chicago, coyotes were responsible for 75 to 78 percent of Canada goose nest depredation.

From Popular-Science

Because this version of suburbia is increasingly hard to find.

From FiveThirtyEight

He added that his stores “don’t allow us to reach deep into suburbia.”

From Fortune

This new urban form, they hoped, would rein in the chaos and sprawl of suburbia, filling people’s lives with art and music, and giving order to an expanding free market of consumer goods.

From Time

Apartment complexes have been the specialty of the Kushner family, whose real estate holdings have spanned the mid-Atlantic and Midwest in recent years, with thousands of units scattered across suburbia.

From ProPublica

Hostility to the non-urban regions includes a detestation of suburbia.

From The Daily Beast

Growing up in that suburbia and air of pop culture, these images stayed with me like a weird dream.

From The Daily Beast

Camberwell (in South London) was still seen as suburbia in the 1920s.

From The Daily Beast

He documented America as it really was, from the political unrest to the rise of suburbia.

From The Daily Beast

Santa is a fixture in a fixture in holiday calendars, at malls, and on lawns across suburbia.

From The Daily Beast

In her most rebellious moods the leaven of Philistia (or the British equivalent, Suburbia) comes to the surface.

From Project Gutenberg

Only, it'll be kind of sad to see the old planets go—to be replaced by a wonderful super-suburbia.

From Project Gutenberg

He bore the stamp of suburbia all over him, and his accent was peculiarly that of London.

From Project Gutenberg

Instead of having arrived at distinction they had come to new red-brick suburbia in a grimy, small town.

From Project Gutenberg

He spoke with a cultured English accent more than a Cockney or a suburbia accent.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• countryside
• environs
• hinterland
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