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suburbia

[ suh-bur-bee-uh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

suburbia

/ səˈbɜːbɪə /

suburbs or the people living in them considered as an identifiable community or class in society
the life, customs, etc, of suburbanites

First recorded in 1895–1900; suburb + -ia

Hostility to the non-urban regions includes a detestation of suburbia.

Growing up in that suburbia and air of pop culture, these images stayed with me like a weird dream.

Camberwell (in South London) was still seen as suburbia in the 1920s.

He documented America as it really was, from the political unrest to the rise of suburbia.

Santa is a fixture in a fixture in holiday calendars, at malls, and on lawns across suburbia.

In her most rebellious moods the leaven of Philistia (or the British equivalent, Suburbia) comes to the surface.

Only, it'll be kind of sad to see the old planets go—to be replaced by a wonderful super-suburbia.

He bore the stamp of suburbia all over him, and his accent was peculiarly that of London.

Instead of having arrived at distinction they had come to new red-brick suburbia in a grimy, small town.

He spoke with a cultured English accent more than a Cockney or a suburbia accent.

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