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suburbanized

suburbanized

1 5.5
Having many houses, shops, and roads outside the city center
  • adjective
  • /səˈbɜːrbənaɪzd/
translation icon : suburbanizado
  • In the increasingly suburbanized areas, homes often feature large lawns and driveways.
  • become suburbanized

Examples

  • In the end, the right wing may have a greater store of grievances than troops among largely suburbanized Afrikaner households.

    Academic text (1993)

  • I refuse to be lumped into the suburbanized collective of simple-minded mortgage-paying authoritarians who've destroyed this country, Andrew.

    Blog text (3)

  • But our methods have become suburbanized!

    Blog text (17)

  • Another solution: People who are uncomfortable living with suburbanized wild animals should not shop for, rent, or buy homes in the foothills.

    Blog text (25)

  • Already under a variety of pressures, the institutions that housed Chicago blues were cut loose from their underpinnings during Chicago's transformation from an industrial city of urban villages to a suburbanized postindustrial metropolis.

    Academic text (2002)

  • An increasingly urbanized and suburbanized population has embraced just-in-time lifestyles tethered to ATM machines and 24-hour stores that provide instant access to cash, food, and gas.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Immigrant, working-class, urbanized, and male fans often identified more closely with Vargas, while relatively affluent, upwardly mobile, suburbanized fans and females leaned their support toward De La Hoya.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The neighborhoods are suburbanized with many parks and schools within walking distance.

  • He moved to a suburbanized town to enjoy a quieter lifestyle away from the city noise.

Synonyms

suburban
vssuburbanized
234 3.5

An area near a town or city that has many houses

is changed by housing growth that spread around a city

Antonyms

urbanized
  • US
2 4.6

A place that has more buildings, roads, and people like a city

Surface Forms

suburbanized positive

Morphology

suburbanized = suburbanize (transparent) = suburb + an + ize + ed

Formed from the verb 'suburbanize' by regular past-participial suffixation, a standard and predictable process.

Etymology

The word suburbanized comes from sub- ('near' or 'under') and urban ('city'). So, a suburbanized area is one that has been built up with suburbs and now looks or feels like the parts outside a city.