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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exurb

"the outer, prosperous ring of the suburbs," 1955, American English, from exurban (adj.), by 1838 (it seems to have arisen in the writings of the reform movement opposed to urban cemeteries), from ex- + urban, on model of suburban. Related: Exurbanite; exurbia.

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exurb

n. A residential area beyond the suburbs

Usage examples of "exurb".

For most of the year Moony and Ariel lived in Kamensic Village, the affluent New York exurb where her mother ran Earthly Delights Catering and Moony attended high school, and everything was pretty much normal.

Arvalin city residence was in an aristocratic exurb on the south shore of thirty-mile-long Sapphire Lake.

Out here, beyond the conurbs and exurbs, it was a great streaming veil, a shower of incandescence falling ceaselessly across the sky.

With the interlocking fires of the exurbs and the city bastions, the forces might be able to break through the surrounding Posleen and start on the long route to safety.

Sixteen strip malls in low-rent exurbs were registered to the Cossack brothers.

This was a semirural section of the Gia Hoi suburb of Hue, a place we would describe today as a gentrified exurb.

This was a semirural section of the Gia Hoi suburb of Hue, a place we would describe today as a gentrified exurb.

Sustained by the gravity shadow of Terra Tharsis, which provides near-terrestrial conditions, exurbs sprawl across the broad slopes of the extinct volcano in a coruscating expanse of solar mills and antennae.

The car drives itself, preprogrammed for their destination at the very fringe of the exurbs, and Shau stares disconsolately at the smoky hills and the heat ripples on the skimway.

With the interlocking fires of the exurbs and the city bastions, the forces might be able to break through the surrounding Posleen and start on the long route to safety.

For this reason, I have purchased this small home in the exurbs of the city, just outside the town of Fremont.