suburban

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

• IPA^(key): /səˈbɜː(ɹ)bən/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bən

suburban (comparative more suburban, superlative most suburban)

1. Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city.
   • 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.

   • 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.

• nonsuburban

suburban (plural suburbans)

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

Borrowed from Latin suburbanus.

• IPA^(key): /su.burˈban/

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

1. suburban

• suburbie