exurbanite
- noun
- /ˌɛksˈɜːrbəˌnaɪt/
- US
- As an exurbanite, she enjoys the spaciousness of her home while still being close enough to the city.
Examples
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I got my coffee and sat down with them, drawing stares from my fellow exurbanites.
Blog text (2) -
An exurban lifestyle that incorporated even more rural flavor was hobby farming, in which exurbanites engaged in some sort of agricultural practice but received limited, if any, economic gain from it (Layton 1980; Daniels 1986) (Figure 5).
Academic text (2012) -
Most of these counties had poor access to growth centers or principal transportation arteries and thus did not attract either manufacturing or exurbanite commuters.
Academic text (1991) -
"The good angels looking out for us, making sure they don't sell T-shirts that say 'fuck you' in Chinese to unsuspecting artsy exurbanite housewives."
Fiction book (1991) -
This counterflow adds to the burden of protection, since these exurbanites demand emergency responses yet typically ignore fire measures, particularly the landscape manicuring that traditionally held a riotous brush in check.
Academic text (2008) -
In Chester County, the friction between mushroom farmers and new suburban and exurbanites, such as the smell of soil composting, increased between 1984 and 1994 (Kelsey and Singletary 1996).
Academic text (2012) -
Many exurbanites prefer to commute to the city for work while enjoying the peace of suburban life.
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The community of exurbanites often hosts farmers' markets to support local agriculture.
Synonyms
A person who lives in a suburb and often commutes to the city for work
Antonyms
How Remote
Surface Forms
Morphology
exurbanite = exurban (semi-transparent) = ex + urban + ite
The suffix '-ite' indicates a person associated with 'exurban', but the specific meaning of living in a commuter suburb or exurb is not immediately obvious.
Etymology
Exurbanite comes from the parts ex- meaning 'out of' and urban meaning 'city', with -ite meaning 'person'. So, an exurbanite is a 'person out of the city', someone who lives beyond the suburbs and often travels into the city for work.