Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as suburban.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person from the suburbs.
  • adjective obsolete suburban

Etymologies

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suburb +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • I don't think any of my students tried to use a word "suburbian" either, as you do.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • I don't think any of my students tried to use a word "suburbian" either, as you do.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • I imagine the neighborhood outside the room depicted suburbian.

    Icon of Erotic Art #33 « Jahsonic 2008

  • I imagine the neighborhood outside the room depicted suburbian.

    September « 2008 « Jahsonic 2008

  • They're probably gonna be living more in the suburbian wonderland so I dunno how much I'll actually get to see her, since I rarely escape from my concrete jungle here.

    No Babies Pill emu-head 2008

  • He lives in a suburbian neighborhood not a suburban one, mind you in New England where the houses are big and they have good sized yards, the kind of yards you could have a picnic in and actually a good game of touch football or even tackle, if you had the inclination, with a good size field.

    Archive 2008-09-01 The_Lex 2008

  • I imagine the neighborhood outside the room depicted suburbian.

    27 « September « 2008 « Jahsonic 2008

  • He lives in a suburbian neighborhood not a suburban one, mind you in New England where the houses are big and they have good sized yards, the kind of yards you could have a picnic in and actually a good game of touch football or even tackle, if you had the inclination, with a good size field.

    Dream #3 The_Lex 2008

  • Here is an article in Czech, comparing temperature differences between a station set in the centre of a city (Brno, in a garden of an abbey, station named Mendel, photo Fig (Obr) 2) and two other stations – one station at the local airport outside the city (Fig/Obr 4, Brno-Turany, 49.15°N 16.70°E) and another one in suburbian area, Brno-Zabovresky.

    More ISO-2000 Weather Stations from Jones and Hansen « Climate Audit 2007

  • We should be talking about something more relevant than a bunch of suburbian Texans practicing their favorite animal fetish.

    Think Progress » Residents in Houston, Texas 2006

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