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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
suburbia
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Their dream is to own a home in suburbia.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ City expansion has increased local property tax revenues and has thwarted some flight to suburbia.
▪ Equal parts amusing and excruciating to watch, this self-indulgent sojourn in suburbia is certainly no Defending Your Life.
▪ In Annie's own youth Ruth would have been a swot in suburbia.
▪ It is established: He hates suburbia.
▪ Not too far outside London, this place, but well beyond suburbia and fairly deep into lush greenery.
▪ Out there in suburbia, labor is very, very still.
▪ Perhaps his arid years in suburbia had blunted his ability to love and be loved.
▪ Raccoons no longer trapped for their fur, have invaded suburbia around Washington and a few have recently been found to be rabid.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
suburbia

1876, from suburb + -ia, perhaps on the model of utopia.

Wiktionary
suburbia

n. The suburbs and all that pertains to or characterizes them; the suburbs as represented or encapsulated by their typical qualities or characteristics. (from 19th c.)

WordNet
suburbia
  1. n. a residential district located on the outskirts of a city [syn: suburb, suburban area]

  2. suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture

Wikipedia
SubUrbia (film)

SubUrbia is a 1996 American comedy-drama film written by Eric Bogosian, based on his play of the same name, and directed by Richard Linklater. It follows the relationships between a few young adults as they spend their time standing on "the corner" outside a local convenience store.

Bogosian based the story on his own experiences growing up in Woburn, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. The convenience store setting is based on the 7-11 in the "Four Corners" section of the west side of Woburn, and the high-school fight song that is sung in one scene is the actual Woburn High fight song ("Black and Orange" to the tune of " On Wisconsin").

Suburbia (play)
For the article about the 1997 film based on the play, see SubUrbia (film).

SubUrbia is a play by Eric Bogosian chronicling the nighttime activities of a group of aimless 20-somethings still living in their suburban New Jersey hometown and their reunion with a former high school classmate who has become a successful musician. The musician Pony's return strips away illusions and excuse to reveal the meaningless dead-end existences of everyone. It's maybe considered a slacker version of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh.

Suburbia (song)

"Suburbia" is a song by UK synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys. It was remixed and released as the fourth single from the album Please in 1986 and became the band's second UK Top 10 hit, peaking at #8.

Suburbia (disambiguation)

Suburbia refers to the suburbs of a metropolitan area.

Suburbia may also refer to:

  • Suburbia (film), a 1984 film by Penelope Spheeris
  • subUrbia, a play by Eric Bogosian
  • subUrbia (film), a 1996 film directed by Richard Linklater based on Bogosian's play
  • Suburbia (board game), a board game published in 2012 by Bézier Games
  • Suburbia (department store), a chain of department stores in Mexico
  • "Suburbia" (song), by UK synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys
  • "Suburbia", a song by the Matthew Good Band from Beautiful Midnight
  • The Buddha of Suburbia (novel), a 1990 novel by Hanif Kureishi
  • "Your Little Suburbia Is in Ruins", a song by August Burns Red
Suburbia (department store)

Suburbia is a chain of department stores founded in 1970, operating more than 115 stores all over Mexico.

Category:Retail companies of Mexico Category:Department stores of Mexico

Suburbia (book)

Suburbia is a book by Bill Owens, a photojournalism monograph on suburbia, published in 1973 by Straight Arrow Press, the former book publishing imprint of Rolling Stone. A revised edition was published in 1999, by Fotofolio (ISBN 978-1881270409).

Usage examples of "suburbia".

Stilted verse, deathlessly chiseled, eulogized the departees -- vanity plates in suburbia for the lifeless.

The woman stood beside her, the picture of upscale suburbia in a knit ensemble of hunter and rust, accessorized in brass, her deep red hair cut in a smooth shoulder-length bob.

I imagine I thought it was going to be like one of those sitcom depictions of suburbia, with all the identical front doors opening at precisely the same time, and identically dressed men marching down the street together, clutching identical briefcases, brollies and newspapers.

The forced suburbia of these women's lives, the clubby limits of the 1950s in some dead American pasturage, here was a dislocation with certain seductive attributes and balances.

There were quite a few Michelles in Western embassies around the world, diplomats who, back in Washington, London, or Paris, had been ordinary, anonymous bureaucrats occupying cubbyhole houses in suburbia, taking the metro to work.

Howard had leaned forward and spoken gravely for the next ten minutes, explaining to the group his considered plan of action, how his team, organised by his head biologist, Michael Lehmann, and Fender, would search every square inch of the forest, discreetly but painstakingly, until they were sure the Black rat was not alive and well and living in the wooded suburbia of Epping Forest.

Although widely franchised and primarily located in suburbia, Shakey's did not truly qualify as "fast food" because most of its business was eat in, as opposed to carry out, attempting to replicate urban pizzerias, albeit with player pianos and pinball machines for the customers' entertainment.

There, through a tunnel of old trees, it rolled on curving roads flanked by large colonial houses, with here and there a French provincial, or what passed for French provincial in suburbia, and slowed at the blunted tip of a quiet dead-end drive.

The greyness of city homes gave way to the leafdom of suburbia, the road signs informing him that Kent was the destination.

Suburbia started about fifteen miles from the airport, mainly ribbon development on either side of the Beltway--very neat wooden and brick houses, many still under construction.

As we drew closer to the city, we passed through layers of shanty towns, the older and more organized verging on a kind of bedraggled suburbia, others looking more like out-and-out refugee camps.

As we drew closer to the city, we passed through layers of shanty towns, the older and more organised verging on a kind of bedraggled suburbia, others looking more like out-and-out refugee camps.

THE SECURITY patrol was systematically scouring a section of suburbia, a convoy of armoured trucks infiltrating a pedestrianised shopping precinct, weaving its way between piles of debris, powdering broken glass beneath its wheels.

She'd gone to the South Mountain for a while, an area so upcountry and backwoods that it makes the North Mountain seem like suburbia.

A Radical out and out, she learnt to speak with horror of Suburbia.