Usually means: Residential areas outside urban centers.
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  1. suburbia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. suburbia: Merriam-Webster
  3. suburbia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. suburbia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. suburbia: Collins English Dictionary
  6. suburbia: Vocabulary.com
  7. Suburbia, suburbia: Wordnik
  8. suburbia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. suburbia: Wiktionary
  10. suburbia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. suburbia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. suburbia: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. suburbia: Dictionary.com
  14. suburbia: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SubUrbia (film), SubUrbia, Suburbia (book), Suburbia (department store), Suburbia (disambiguation), Suburbia (film), Suburbia (play), Suburbia (song), Suburbia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. suburbia: Rhymezone
  17. suburbia: FreeDictionary.org
  18. suburbia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. suburbia: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. suburbia: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  (originally British) 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.

Similar:
suburb, suburban area, country, shire, upland, Britishism, provinces, Briticism, Brit, Brit., more...

Opposite:
urban, city, downtown, metropolis, inner city

Phrases:
Murder in Suburbia, Jesus of Suburbia, Criticism of suburbia, Kings of Suburbia, Crime and Punishment in Suburbia, more...

Adjectives:
class, white, new, american, modern, outer, postwar, australian, affluent, middle, contemporary

Colors:
    beige,     olive green,     light gray,     taupe,     soft blue, more...

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Similar:
suburb, suburban area, country, shire, upland, Britishism, provinces, Briticism, Brit, Brit., more...

Opposite:
urban, city, downtown, metropolis, inner city

Phrases:
Murder in Suburbia, Jesus of Suburbia, Criticism of suburbia, Kings of Suburbia, Crime and Punishment in Suburbia, more...

Adjectives:
class, white, new, american, modern, outer, postwar, australian, affluent, middle, contemporary

Colors:
    beige,     olive green,     light gray,     taupe,     soft blue, more...



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