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    Relating to the suburbs — the quieter, more residential areas just outside a big city, usually with houses, yards, and less traffic and noise than downtown. It can describe a place ('a suburban neighborhood') or, a little critically, a certain safe, ordinary, unexciting lifestyle: 'a very suburban way of life.'

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組成From Latin "sub-" (under, near) + "urbs" (city). So literally, "near the city."

同家族的字

  • suburbthe base noun this word describes
  • urbanshares the Latin root 'urbs,' meaning city

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

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suburbanadj/səˈbɜː(ɹ)bən/

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    Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city; of or relating to suburbia or the suburbs.

    • Suburban villas, highway-ſide retreats, / That dread th' encroachment of our growing ſtreets, / Tight boxes, neatly ſaſh'd, and in a blaze / With all a July ſun's collected rays, / Delight the citizen, who gaſping there, / Breathes clouds of duſt and calls it country air.
    • Not only has suburban life separated the great concentrated masses of our people from their birthright of meadows, fields and woods; of Nature, in her untamed splendour and mystery, most of them have never had so much as a momentary glimpse.

suburbannoun/səˈbɜː(ɹ)bən/

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    A person who lives in a suburb.

  • 2

    An automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。