suburbia
IPA: sʌbˈɝbiʌ
noun
- (originally Britain) The suburbs as a whole and all that characterizes or pertains to them; (sometimes derogatory) the suburbs as encapsulated or represented by the typical characteristics or qualities of the people living there, especially complacency, conformity, conservativeness, dullness, etc.
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Examples of "suburbia" in Sentences
- Here in suburbia grocery shopping is part necessity, part social outing.
- The working poor living in suburbia spend a large portion of their incomes on cars.
- As coyotes make themselves at home in suburbia, incidences of coyotes biting people increase.
- Most people living in "suburbia" in the United States have not seen or ackownledged this trend.
- Witch Way to the Mall, Esther's anthology about witches in suburbia, which just hit the shelves.
- It is entirely plausible (likely?) that those living in suburbia, on average, have more developed social skills.
- She was "aren't there books, multiple books, where the kid is black and just has a life in suburbia and is happy and has pets and parents with jobs and geez, we have a black President, where are the books?"
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