exurb

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English

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Etymology

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Blend of extra +‎ urban.

Noun

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exurb (plural exurbs)

  1. A residential area beyond the suburbs.
    • 2008 July 21, Megan McArdle, “Exurbs delenda est”, in The Atlantic[1]:
      I had my first taste of a collapsing exurb last night.
    • 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 91:
      Lots of cities are exurbs of other cities for reasons of finance or infrastructure.
    • 2023 July 7, Paul Salopek, “China's Hinge”, in National Geographic[2]:
      Miles of exurbs bristle with hundreds—no, thousands—of apartment towers. These monoliths soar like gigantic dominoes into a dust-whitened sky. The area was hand-tilled cornfields when Lui grew up in Xi’an in the 1980s.

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