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adjective. uk / səˈbɜː.b ə n / us / səˈbɝː.b ə n /. Add to word list. relating to a suburb: suburban schools / housing. They live in suburban Washington. disapproving. used to suggest that something is boring and has no excitement: suburban life.
Sep 18, 2024 · suburban (comparative more suburban, superlative most suburban) Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city.
The Battle of Glasgow was fought on October 15, 1864, at Glasgow, Missouri, as part of Price's Missouri Expedition during the American Civil War. In late 1864, the Confederate leadership in the trans-Mississippi theater planned a campaign into the state of Missouri. Major General Sterling Price led the expedition, and hoped to capture St. Louis.
Suburban villas, highway-ſide retreats, / That dread th' encroachment of our growing ſtreets, / Tight boxes, neatly ſaſh'd, and in a blaze / With all a July ſun's collected rays, / Delight the citizen, who gaſping there, / Breathes clouds of duſt and calls it country air.
Suburban means relating to a suburb. ...a comfortable suburban home. ...a suburban shopping centre in Sydney. If you describe something as suburban, you mean that it is dull and conventional. His clothes are conservative and suburban. ...ghastly good taste and suburban gentility.
Suburban refers to areas just beyond a city’s border. Your parents might have grown up in the city and then moved to a more suburban area after they had kids. If you see a lot of malls, plus houses that all look the same, and you're just outside a city, then you're in a suburban area: the suburbs.
