suburbia
Americannoun
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suburbs collectively.
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suburbanites collectively.
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the social or cultural aspects of life in the suburbs.
noun
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suburbs or the people living in them considered as an identifiable community or class in society
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the life, customs, etc, of suburbanites
Etymology
Origin of suburbia
Example Sentences
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His television and film work often examined the secrets, sometimes disturbing, of suburbia and small-town America.
Postwar America responded to the instability of the Depression and the war by building a world that promised stability—suburbia.
We were in suburbia, with plenty of open green spaces, woods and creeks.
A long and inevitable clash came when suburbia closed in around the 1,000-acre Inglewood Oil Field, as occurred at oil facilities all over the region.
From Los Angeles Times
Together for 15 years, I had met Joe in suburbia at Bogies, a.k.a.
From Los Angeles Times
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