suburban
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin suburbanus, from prefix sub- (“under”) + urbs (“city”) + -anus (“adjective suffix”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
suburban (comparative more suburban, superlative most suburban)
- 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.
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Translations[edit]
relating to outskirts of a city
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Noun[edit]
suburban (plural suburbans)
- A person who lives in a suburb.
- An automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis.
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Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin suburbanus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
suburban m or n (feminine singular suburbană, masculine plural suburbani, feminine and neuter plural suburbane)
Declension[edit]
Declension of suburban
singular | plural | ||||||
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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 |
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