suburban
adjective
- from or pertaining to a suburb
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /səˈbɜː(ɹ)bən/
adj
Etymology: From Latin suburbanus, from prefix sub- (“under”) + urbs (“city”) + -anus (“adjective suffix”), equivalent to sub- + urban.
- 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.”
noun
Etymology: From Latin suburbanus, from prefix sub- (“under”) + urbs (“city”) + -anus (“adjective suffix”), equivalent to sub- + urban.
- A person who lives in a suburb.
- An automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis.