exurbn.
/ˈɛksəːb/, U.S. /ˈɛksərb/, /ˈɛɡzərb/ Originally U.S.
A district outside a city or town; spec. a prosperous area situated beyond the suburbs of a city.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > suburb > remote
outer suburb1847
exurb1955
exurbia1955
1955 A. C. Spectorsky Exurbanites ii. 14 Spreading outward from New York City, roughly the first twenty-five miles is solid Suburbia; thereafter, for a belt extending another twenty-five miles, come the exurbs. Exurbia being a recent phenomenon, and a unique one, it may be interesting to explore..how the exurban way of life came to be..superimposed on..earlier cultural patterns in certain areas.
1957 Economist 16 Nov. 596/2 They have scattered to the four corners of the country and into the suburbs and ‘exurbs’.
1966 L. J. Braun Cat who could read Backwards (1967) ii. 16 To reach the fashionable exurb fifteen miles beyond the city limits, Qwilleran drove through complacent suburbs.
1967 Observer 1 Oct. 27/6 Levittown..is not any arcadian upper middle-class exurb.
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