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suburbanite

[ suh-bur-buh-nahyt ]

noun

  1. a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of suburbanite1

First recorded in 1885–90; suburban + -ite 1

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Example Sentences

I expect he was hoping I'd be shocked, because I am only a suburbanite.

A kind-hearted Suburbanite happened to be passing along on his Way to the 5:42 Train.

The railway, the trolley, the automobile and the top buggy have transformed him into a suburbanite.

There are certain little routine joys known only to the servantless suburbanite.

There is much of man's life in the figure of the suburbanite standing absorbed in his own thoughts in the midst of his radishes.

By 9.30 every student would be in his chair, which he had dragged as near to the piano as the early suburbanite would let him.

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