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Suburbia|səˈbɜːbɪə|
Now often suburbia.
[f. suburb + -ia1.]
A quasi-proper name for: The suburbs (esp. of London). Freq. rather disparagingly. Also in N. Amer. and general contexts, and (poet. nonce-use) as quasi-adj.
1895E. Pugh (title) A street in Suburbia. 1896Westm. Gaz. 20 Apr. 8/1 Suburbia also was very great in primroses and maiden-hair fern posies. 1907H. Wyndham Flare Footlights xix, Adrian took a leisurely survey of the room and its occupants. Both reflected Suburbia very strongly. 1922L. Mumford in H. E. Stearns Civilization in U.S. 13 ‘Suburbia’ is used here in both the accepted and in a more literal sense. On one hand I refer to the fact that the growth of the metropolis throws vast numbers of people into distant dormitories where..life is carried on without the discipline of rural occupations and without the cultural resources that the Central District of the city still retains. 1925Wodehouse Sam the Sudden xiv. 99 The early morning patois of Suburbia, which is the English language filtered through toast and marmalade. 1936T. Sharp Eng. Panorama vi. 94 H. G. Wells..anticipated with extraordinary accuracy (and, as it seems to-day, with a maddening optimism) the universal suburbia which is already upon us. 1947Auden Age of Anxiety iii. 76 A married tribe commutes, mild from suburbia. 1967McLuhan & Fiore Medium is Massage 72 It gave us darkest suburbia and its lasting symbol: the lawnmower. 1970G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard iii. 92 The deposit on their admission to suburbia was managed jointly. |