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suburbia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun suburbia has 2 senses
- suburbia(n = noun.location) suburb, suburban area - a residential district located on the outskirts of a city; Array is a kind of community, residential area, residential district
- suburbia(n = noun.group) Array - suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture; Array is a kind of subculture
has particulars: addition, bedroom community, faubourg, stockbroker belt, wimbledon, clichy, clichy-la-garenne, orly, sun city
is a part of fringe, outskirt
Derived form adjective suburban1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
suburbia, n. often derog. the suburbs, their inhabitants, and their way of life.
THESAURUS
suburbia
Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, Middle America, Stadt, West End, West Side, banlieue, barrio, black ghetto, blighted area, boom town, borough, bourg, bourgeoisie, burg, burgh, burgherdom, business district, central city, city, city center, conurbation, core, downtown, exurb, exurbia, faubourg, fourth-rater, ghetto, ghost town, greater city, greenbelt, inner city, market town, mediocrity, megalopolis, metropolis, metropolitan area, middle class, middle order, middle orders, midtown, municipality, no prize, nobody special, nonentity, nothing special, outskirts, polis, red-light district, residential district, run-down neighborhood, second-rater, shopping center, silent majority, skid road, skid row, slum, slums, small beer, small potatoes, spread city, suburb, suburbs, tenderloin, tenement district, third-rater, tinhorn, town, township, uptown, urban blight, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs, ville
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