- [usually before noun] in or connected with a suburb
- suburban areas
- a suburban street
- life in suburban London
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- (disapproving) boring and ordinary
- a suburban lifestyle
Word OriginMiddle English: from Latin suburbanus, from suburbium, from sub- ‘near to’ + urbs, urb- ‘city’.
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