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单词 exurban
释义 exurban, a. and n.|ɛkˈsɜːbən|
[f. ex-1 + urban a. after suburban a.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to a district outside a city or town; suburban; spec. pertaining to, or characteristic of, an exurb.
1901Westm. Gaz. 18 Dec. 4/2 Pilgrimages of an exurban character, visits to King's Langley.., to Berkhampstead.1955Archit. Rev. CXVIII. 351/1 The most important architectural consequence of motorized America's post-war flight from the cities has been the emergence of the exurban shopping centre as a differentiated building-type.1955[see exurbia].1961L. Mumford City in History xvi. 485 It..anticipates the present ‘exurban’ emphasis on informal clothing.1963New Statesman 8 Feb. 188/1 The arc of educated, prosperous suburbia running from near-urban Brookline..to ex-urban Weston and Wayland.
B. n. A resident in an exurban district (see quot.). rare.
1957Britannica Bk. of Year 512/1 An exurbanite—or exurban—was one who kept up his city ways and habits in the country [in the U.S.A.].
Hence eˈxurbanite n., a resident in an exurban district or in exurbia; adj. = exurban a. orig. U.S.
1955A. C. Spectorsky (title) Exurbanites.1957[see exurban n.].1959Encounter Sept. 50/2 A suburbanite corner..which..dispenses exurbanite pabulum.1960Spectator 8 Jan. 47/3 The stock types who go through the moves in this upper exurbanite gavotte.1960Observer 13 Nov. 3/2 The day-old chicks are farmed out to growers, mostly City exurbanites with a place in Sussex.
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