suburbanite
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- noun
- /səˈbɜːrbəˌnaɪt/
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habitante de los suburbios
- Many suburbanites enjoy a quieter lifestyle compared to residents of the city.
- white suburbanites
- affluent suburbanites
- wealthy suburbanites
Examples
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Such restrictions no doubt dissuaded more suburbanites from attending than urban residents.
Academic text (1994) -
"The suburbs had expanded into the countryside and the new suburbanites wouldn't tolerate the flies," says entomologist Lawrence G. Pickens.
Academic text (1994) -
In her eyes, he was a corporate suburbanite, even if he lived alone in the heart of the city.
Fiction book (2000) -
Your average well-off suburbanite could buy one for himself just by selling his house!
Blog text (5) -
So I hear you're about to become a suburbanite.
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And the suburbanites look at local government in much the same way the opponents of the township did.
Academic text (2017) -
Got so bad, rich suburbanites couldn't afford to fill their swimming pools.
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Suburbanites benefited from the services and infrastructure of the metropolitan area while refusing to share the regional burdens.
Academic text (2017) -
But Frug, Tiebout, and the suburbanites each have radically different ideas of what local government is good for.
Academic text (2017) -
The types of people who settled North Earlscourt exemplified the new suburbanites of Toronto during the early twentieth century.
Academic text (1991)
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Morphology
Etymology
Suburbanite comes from sub- meaning 'near' and urban meaning 'city', with -ite meaning 'a person from'. So a suburbanite is someone who lives in the area just outside a city and often has the typical suburban lifestyle.