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Word entry · 8 letters

suburbia

Best crossword clue

"Residential outskirts"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /səˈbɜːbi.ə/Part of speech nounSorted abbirsuuStarts with SEnds with A1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture

Word origin

From suburb + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns, the names of collections of things, etc.), perhaps modelled after Latin suburbia (“suburbs”), the plural of suburbium.

Used in a sentence

  • Others with young families prefer their children to live by the sea, rather than in suburbia, even if as a result one or both parents have to travel many miles to their work.
  • Well, if it is because of increased affluence of people able to seek suburbia doesn't the economic factor become one of the principal reasons for the suburbia growing as it does? Only those who are affluent enough to go.
  • Outside a new day is dawning / Outside suburbia is sprawling everywhere

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