suburbia

noun

sub·ur·bia sə-ˈbər-bē-ə

Synonyms of suburbia

: the suburbs of a city

: people who live in the suburbs

: suburban life

Examples of suburbia in a Sentence

a problem that is common in suburbia the percentage of the country's population living in suburbia The film is an interesting critique of suburbia.

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As malls and suburbia leeched retailers from downtown, the Metropolitan went dark in 1979. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2026 But the stores easily adapted to the car and post-war suburbia. — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026 Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth Eighty-one-year-old Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick lives quietly in suburbia until a neighbor's suspicious death draws attention to her and the decades-old secret she's tried to bury. — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 19 June 2026 The actor got his start on Family Ties, an '80s sitcom about the Keaton family, whose matriarch and patriarch were once 1960s radicals now attempting to raise their Reagan-era children in suburbia. — Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for suburbia

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from English suburb

First Known Use

1870, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of suburbia was in 1870

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suburbia

noun

sub·ur·bia sə-ˈbər-bē-ə

: the suburbs of a city

suburbia

noun

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