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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The suburbs.
  • noun Suburbanites considered as a group.
  • noun Suburbanites considered as a cultural class.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture
  • noun a residential district located on the outskirts of a city

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From suburb +‎ -ia.

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