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A resident of a suburb
Answer for the clue "A resident of a suburb ", 11 letters:
suburbanite
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Word definitions for suburbanite in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1862, from suburban + -ite (1). Middle English used suburban (n.) in this sense (mid-14c.). An Old English word for "suburbanites" was underburhware .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context informal English) Someone who dwells in suburbia.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a resident of a suburb
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A lawn-mowing, mall-shopping, jeep-commuting suburbanite , he lives quietly in Acton with his wife and two sons and shuns publicity. ▪ As a result, the urban masses turned to the Labour Party and the suburbanites in self-defence ...
Usage examples of suburbanite.
In the 1962 election, however, the suburbanites rejected the Tories and out of the fifty-eight seats in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Vancouver, Diefenbaker held on to only nine.
Sarah and I looked quite the devoted couple in our matching suburbanite jeans and sweatshirts, with neat nylon bomber jackets for the rain.
Back in the fifties, when the hydrogen bomb and the Cold War were new and so terrifying that suburbanites were digging bomb shelters, science fiction abounded with tales in which the bickering nations of Earth united to face a threatened invasion from space.
Louisville, like other cities faced with urban decay, has turned to the building of midtown apartments as a means of luring suburbanites back to the city center.
This was a genuine country home -- warm and well-kept -- that eschewed the ducks and hearts and other tacky trappings of country life that suburbanites buy at craft fairs in the malls.
It is not uncommon for suburbanites to nostalgically return to their old neighborhoods to dine at the White Castles they knew in their youth.
But the suburbanites, who supplied most of her patient load, sometimes chose exotic pet-store beasts: pythons, chinchillas, pygmy hedgehogs.
He slapped the accordion door with one arm and said, like any suburbanite with a new split-ranch, “.
It looks like a couple of suburbanites who hang out at a nudist colony every other weekend.
It seemed as if all the Silver Spring suburbanites had big plans for this spring day, which was partly overcast.