suburban

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin suburbanus, from prefix sub- (“under”) + urbs (“city”) + -anus (“adjective suffix”).

Pronunciation

• 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.
   • (Can we date this quote by Cowper and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, […] delight the citizen.

Antonyms

• nonsuburban

Translations

relating to outskirts of a city

• Belarusian: пры́гарадны (prýharadny), прыме́скі (prymjéski)
• Catalan: suburbà
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: předměstský m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: voorstedelijk
• Finnish: esikaupunki-
• French: suburbain (fr) m, banlieusard (fr) m
• German: vorstädtisch, Vorort- (de)
• Greek: προαστιακός (el) m (proastiakós)
• Hungarian: külvárosi
• Irish: fo-uirbeach, bruachbhailteach, fo-bhailteach
• Japanese: 郊外の (ja) (こうがいの, kōgai no)
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• Korean: 교외의 (ko) (gyooe'ui)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: podmiejski (pl)
• Portuguese: suburbano (pt) m, suburbana f
• Romanian: suburban (ro) m or n, suburbană f
• Russian: при́городный (ru) (prígorodnyj), за́городный (ru) (zágorodnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: при̏градскӣ

  Roman: prȉgradskī (sh)

• Slovak: predmestský
• Spanish: suburban
• Swedish: förorts-
• Ukrainian: приміськи́й (prymisʹkýj), передміськи́й (peredmisʹkýj), підміськи́й (uk) (pidmisʹkýj)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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
• periphery
• environs

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.burˈban/

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin suburbanus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsu.burˈban/

Adjective

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

1. suburban