suburban

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈbɜː(ɹ)bən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bən

Adjective

suburban (comparative more suburban, superlative most suburban)

1. Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city; of or relating to suburbia or the suburbs.
   • 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.

   • 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 13:

     Not only has suburban life separated the great concentrated masses of our people from their birthright of meadows, fields and woods; of Nature, in her untamed splendour and mystery, most of them have never had so much as a momentary glimpse.

   • 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.

   • 2025 February 25, Gabriel Castillo, Jenna Barnes, Ben Bradley, Michael Johnson, Erik Runge, “Defeated in Dolton: Trustee Jason House beats incumbent Mayor Tiffany Henyard by landslide in primary”, in WGN-TV‎^[1]:

     Tiffany Henyard’s tumultuous tenure as mayor of south suburban Dolton is coming to an end, and voters were very clear about ousting her.

Antonyms

• nonsuburban

Derived terms

• cyburban
• presuburban
• semisuburban
• suburbandom
• suburbanhood
• suburbanise
• suburbanism
• suburbanite
• suburbanitis
• suburbanity
• suburbanize
• suburbanly
• suburbanness
• surburbanite
• unsuburban

Translations

relating to outskirts of a city

• Belarusian: пры́гарадны (prýharadny), прыме́скі (prymjéski)
• Bulgarian: от предградията (ot predgradijata)
• Catalan: suburbà
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 郊區的 / 郊区的 (zh) (jiāoqū de), 市郊的 (zh) (shìjiāo de)

• Czech: předměstský
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: voorstedelijk
• Esperanto: suburba
• Finnish: esikaupunki-, lähiö-
• French: suburbain (fr), banlieusard (fr)
• German: vorstädtisch, Vorort- (de)
• Greek: προαστιακός (el) (proastiakós)
• Hungarian: külvárosi (hu)
• Irish: fo-uirbeach, bruachbhailteach, fo-bhailteach
• Italian: suburbano (it) m
• Japanese: 郊外の (ja) (こうがいの, kōgai no)
• Kazakh: қала айналасындағы (qala ainalasyndağy), қала жаны (qala jany)
• Korean: 교외의 (ko) (gyooe'ui)
• Latin: suburbānus
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: podmiejski (pl)
• Portuguese: suburbano (pt)
• Romanian: suburban (ro)
• Russian: при́городный (ru) (prígorodnyj), за́городный (ru) (zágorodnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: при̏градскӣ

  Roman: prȉgradskī (sh)

• Slovak: predmestský
• Spanish: suburbano (es)
• Swedish: förorts-
• Ukrainian: приміськи́й (prymisʹkýj), передміськи́й (peredmisʹkýj), підміськи́й (uk) (pidmisʹkýj)
• Vietnamese: ngoại ô (vi)

Noun

suburban (plural suburbans)

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

Related terms

• suburb

See also

• environs
• periphery

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English suburban, from Latin suburbanus.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /suˈburban/ [suˈbur.ban]
• Rhymes: -urban
• Syllabification: su‧bur‧ban

Adjective

suburban (comparative lebih suburban, superlative paling suburban)

1. (urban studies) suburban

Noun

suburban (plural suburban-suburban)

1. (urban studies) suburb

Related terms

• suburbanisasi

Further reading

• “suburban” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suburbanus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.burˈban/

Adjective

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

1. suburban

Declension

Declension of suburban

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	suburban		suburbană		suburbani	suburbane
	definite	suburbanul		suburbana		suburbanii	suburbanele
genitive- dative	indefinite	suburban		suburbane		suburbani	suburbane
	definite	suburbanului		suburbanei		suburbanilor	suburbanelor

Related terms

• suburbie