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SUBURBIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suburbia mean? 

SUBURBIA (noun)
  The noun SUBURBIA has 2 senses:

1. a residential district located on the outskirts of a cityplay

2. suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subcultureplay

  Familiarity information: SUBURBIA used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SUBURBIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A residential district located on the outskirts of a city

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

suburb; suburban area; suburbia

Hypernyms ("suburbia" is a kind of...):

community; residential area; residential district (a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "suburbia"):

addition (a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area)

bedroom community (a community where many commuters live)

faubourg (a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city)

stockbroker belt (a wealthy residential suburb)

Instance hyponyms:

Wimbledon (a suburb of London and the headquarters of the club where annual international tennis championships are played on grass courts)

Clichy; Clichy-la-Garenne (a northwestern suburb of Paris; the residence of the Merovingian royalty in the 7th century)

Orly (a southeastern suburb of Paris; site of an international airport serving Paris)

Sun City (a residential suburb of Phoenix)

Holonyms ("suburbia" is a part of...):

fringe; outskirt (a part of the city far removed from the center)

Derivation:

suburban (relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("suburbia" is a kind of...):

subculture (a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs)


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