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词汇 suburban
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Definition of suburban in English:

suburban

adjective səˈbəːb(ə)nsəˈbərbən
  • 1Of or characteristic of a suburb.

    近郊的,郊区的

    suburban life

    近郊生活。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • All right, they're slow for the suburban commute, but that's what the trains are for.
    • In a crowded place like a suburban strip mall parking lot, you are bound to see at least one white van.
    • Thousands of people were forced to get off their trains at suburban stations.
    • Almost all roads can be considered as either urban or suburban in character.
    • Should we use the existing railway tracks and bring in a suburban rail system as they have in Chennai or Mumbai?
    • Castlepark's residents are equally enamoured with their little pocket of suburban bliss.
    • I can improve the way people move around with suburban trains and a central ring road.
    • There is some indication that these jobs are being filled by students and suburban commuters.
    • To some, this is a sign that the city's sprawling suburban growth is slowing.
    • Were they fabricated in a suburban yard, shipped in up the Miss, brought in by train?
    • The site lies in a dense suburban residential district to the north of the city centre.
    • Services on city, suburban and commuter routes will terminate earlier than normal.
    • Busways seem to be the mode of choice to improve suburban transit service.
    • Aunt Casey lived in a townhouse in a residential, almost suburban, area of Vancouver.
    • Though commuting to the suburban campus is still no picnic, things have improved.
    • For instance, we live in a modest sidesplit suburban house, which has a total of 10 steps.
    • In addition, they suggest their music is less influenced by Liverpool itself than their suburban hometown.
    • Incentives to entice the few specialists available to practice in suburban areas have failed.
    • Not only does it have great metro, bus and suburban train services, it also has plenty more.
    • They live in inner suburban Melbourne and her biological clock is ticking but he doesn't want to hear it.
    Synonyms
    residential, commuter, dormitory
    North American bedroom
    rare exurban
    1. 1.1 Contemptibly dull and ordinary.
      乡气的;乏味的;平庸的
      Elizabeth despised Ann's house-proudness as deeply suburban

      伊丽莎白厌恶安对自己家庭的夸耀,认为那很俗气。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • These girls' parents aren't exactly your average suburban mummies and daddies.
      • Hugh used to say that Howard was a boring little suburban lawyer with a closed and not very capacious mind.
      • The pair played a brother and sister marooned in the wastes of suburban ordinariness.
      • In Mixed Feelings Paul plays Vernon, a middle-class man stuck in a suburban rut.
      • They are doing this as a hobby to give shape to their empty suburban lives, not out of love for others.
      Synonyms
      dull, boring, uninteresting, conventional, ordinary, commonplace, average, unremarkable, undistinguished, unexceptional, pedestrian
      provincial, unsophisticated, small-town, parochial, parish-pump, insular, inward-looking, limited, blinkered, bourgeois, middle-class, conservative
      informal bog-standard, nothing to write home about, no great shakes, not up to much
      British informal common or garden

Derivatives

  • suburbanite

  • noun səˈbəːbənʌɪtsəˈbərbəˌnaɪt
    • A person who lives in a suburb.

      affluent suburbanites who commute long distances
      Example sentencesExamples
      • the migration of suburbanites to the city
      • More suburbanites now commute to other suburbs than to cities.
      • While there's no question the hardest-hit areas are south of Alberta Avenue, the problem reaches well beyond the area known to well-to-do suburbanites as the rough part of town.
      • Affluent suburbanites create gated enclosures not to pursue profit (of course property values play a role) but in the name of community.
  • suburbanization

  • noun
    • It's an enormous social cost, a subsidy really, to luxury suburbanization.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Billboards are the effect of capital and the production of value, just as highways (to get us to the landscape) are the effect of a complicated system of oil consumption and suburbanization.
      • We sometimes see Chinatowns as tourist destinations, but more and more the actual social importance and history of these places is slowly being lost to urban renewal and the suburbanization of Chinese communities in Canada.
  • suburbanize

  • verb səˈbəːb(ə)nʌɪzsəˈbərbəˌnaɪz
    • Make or become suburban in character.

      with object this development would be suburbanizing a historic area
      Example sentencesExamples
      • no object American cities have faced pressures to suburbanize
      • car-dominated, heavily suburbanized areas
      • ‘Belonging’ sags in a hammock between ‘roots’ and ‘routes’, suburbanising a prime site of cultural toing and froing.
      • ‘Marin was still urbanizing - suburbanizing, I guess - incredibly fast,’ Ellen says.
      • What we probably call the new right - the upmarket pro-development types, not your old Queensland white-shoe brigade wanting to suburbanise the north coast.

Rhymes

Durban, exurban, turban, urban

Definition of suburban in US English:

suburban

adjectivesəˈbərbənsəˈbərbən
  • 1Of or characteristic of a suburb.

    近郊的,郊区的

    suburban life

    近郊生活。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Thousands of people were forced to get off their trains at suburban stations.
    • Incentives to entice the few specialists available to practice in suburban areas have failed.
    • For instance, we live in a modest sidesplit suburban house, which has a total of 10 steps.
    • Busways seem to be the mode of choice to improve suburban transit service.
    • I can improve the way people move around with suburban trains and a central ring road.
    • Castlepark's residents are equally enamoured with their little pocket of suburban bliss.
    • Services on city, suburban and commuter routes will terminate earlier than normal.
    • Though commuting to the suburban campus is still no picnic, things have improved.
    • Aunt Casey lived in a townhouse in a residential, almost suburban, area of Vancouver.
    • All right, they're slow for the suburban commute, but that's what the trains are for.
    • To some, this is a sign that the city's sprawling suburban growth is slowing.
    • There is some indication that these jobs are being filled by students and suburban commuters.
    • They live in inner suburban Melbourne and her biological clock is ticking but he doesn't want to hear it.
    • The site lies in a dense suburban residential district to the north of the city centre.
    • Not only does it have great metro, bus and suburban train services, it also has plenty more.
    • Almost all roads can be considered as either urban or suburban in character.
    • In addition, they suggest their music is less influenced by Liverpool itself than their suburban hometown.
    • Should we use the existing railway tracks and bring in a suburban rail system as they have in Chennai or Mumbai?
    • Were they fabricated in a suburban yard, shipped in up the Miss, brought in by train?
    • In a crowded place like a suburban strip mall parking lot, you are bound to see at least one white van.
    Synonyms
    residential, commuter, dormitory
    1. 1.1 Contemptibly dull and ordinary.
      乡气的;乏味的;平庸的
      Elizabeth despised Ann's house-proudness as deeply suburban

      伊丽莎白厌恶安对自己家庭的夸耀,认为那很俗气。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • They are doing this as a hobby to give shape to their empty suburban lives, not out of love for others.
      • These girls' parents aren't exactly your average suburban mummies and daddies.
      • The pair played a brother and sister marooned in the wastes of suburban ordinariness.
      • In Mixed Feelings Paul plays Vernon, a middle-class man stuck in a suburban rut.
      • Hugh used to say that Howard was a boring little suburban lawyer with a closed and not very capacious mind.
      Synonyms
      dull, boring, uninteresting, conventional, ordinary, commonplace, average, unremarkable, undistinguished, unexceptional, pedestrian
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