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suburbanite

suburbanite

12 5.8
A person who lives in a suburb and often commutes to the city for work
  • noun
  • /səˈbɜːrbəˌnaɪt/
translation icon : habitante de los suburbios
  • Many suburbanites enjoy a quieter lifestyle compared to residents of the city.
  • white suburbanites
  • affluent suburbanites
  • wealthy suburbanites

Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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)

Antonyms

5 4.1

A person who lives in a city and is used to city life

How Urban

suburbanite
12 5.8
villager
128 1.0
ruralist
7.7

Surface Forms

suburbanite singular
suburbanites plural

Morphology

suburbanite = suburb (transparent) = sub + urban + ite

The suffix '-ite' indicates a person associated with a place or group, making the meaning clear.

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.