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suburbia

/səˈbɝː.bi.ə/
sub · ur · bi · a
Adjective:suburban
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suburbia Lexical Profile

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• noun

1

The suburbs of a city or town considered collectively, along with their inhabitants and characteristic middle-class way of life.

Example

"After living in a cramped downtown apartment for a decade, the couple decided to move to suburbia for the quieter streets and larger yards."

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Word Nuance & Usage

While 'suburbs' simply refers to the physical residential areas outside a city, 'suburbia' often carries cultural or mildly pejorative connotations of middle-class conformity, uniformity, and domestic routine.

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suburbanity
suburbanization
suburbanize
suburbia
subversion
subversive
subversively

Word Origin & Etymology

Coined in the late 19th century by combining 'suburb' (from Latin 'suburbium', meaning 'an outlying part of a city', from 'sub-' meaning 'near' and 'urbs' meaning 'city') with the Latinate place-noun suffix '-ia'.

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Wordmom. (2026). Definition of Suburbia. In Wordmom Dictionary. Retrieved Nov 5, 2026, from https://wordmom.com/dictionary/suburbia
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