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suburbanite

American  
[suh-bur-buh-nahyt] / səˈbɜr bəˌnaɪt /

noun

  1. a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town.


suburbanite British  
/ səˈbɜːbəˌnaɪt /

noun

  1. a person who lives in a suburb

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of suburbanite

First recorded in 1885–90; suburban + -ite 1

Example Sentences

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“I was a suburbanite kid who got a dose of exposure to what was happening to black Americans in my own city.”

From Washington Times Jul. 25, 2023

She added that as her children grew up and learned who they wanted to be in life, “I learned who I wasn’t — one of those card-playing, country-club suburbanite ladies.”

From Seattle Times Nov. 24, 2021

One suggested that “Jeff Bezos wearing a cowboy hat is the final form of every suburbanite who drives an F150.”

From Washington Post Jul. 20, 2021

Elisabeth is a new mom — a writer and a reluctant suburbanite, recently transplanted upstate from Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn — whose narrative voice is characterized by an unflagging snobbishness and a somewhat joyless, acerbic outlook.

From New York Times Jun. 26, 2020

They wouldn’t even recognize Megan the happily married suburbanite.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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