suburbann.adj.

Brit.

/səˈbəːb(ə)n/, U.S.

/səˈbərbən/

Forms: Middle English 1600s– suburban, 1500s–1600s suburbane; also Scottish pre-1700 suburban, pre-1700 suburbyn.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin suburbānum; Latin suburbānus.

Etymology: As noun partly (i) < classical Latin suburbānum country seat near a city, in post-classical Latin also suburb (4th cent.), use as noun of neuter of suburbānus (see below), and partly (ii) < post-classical Latin suburbanus inhabitant of a suburb near a city (11th cent.), use as noun of masculine of classical Latin suburbānus (see below). As adjective < classical Latin suburbānus situated close to a city (usually Rome), (of people) living near a city, (of habits) characteristic of those living near a city < sub- sub- prefix + urbānus urban adj. Compare Middle French, French suburbain, adjective (c1380; rare before the 19th cent.), Spanish suburbano, adjective (1490), Italian suburbano (a1547 as noun in sense ‘person who resides in a suburb’, a1597 as adjective).

A. n.

†1. In plural, with the. The suburbs. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

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 > collectively

suburbc1350

suburbans?c1400

suburblec1540

outshifts1592

skirts1616

environsc1660

outpart1722

outlets1762

suburbia1870

'burb1977

?c1400 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Sidney Sussex) ii. 46 Þe suburbanes of gomorre [L. de suburbaniis gomorre].

a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) ix. l. 681 He brynt þe suburbanys of Carleil.

a. A person who resides in a suburb. Frequently depreciative in later use, implying a dull ordinariness or lack of sophistication.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > inhabitant of suburbs

suburban1468

suburbian1606

suburbanite1855

Metrolander1926

subtopian1958

1468 Medulla Gram. (St. John's Cambr.) f. 105^v, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Suburban Suburbanus, a suburban [a1425 Stonyhurst subarbe; ?c1460 BL Add. 33534 manens sub vrbe; a1500 Harl. 2257 qui manet sub vrbe].

a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 2914 A gret part of þe citeȝanys, And mony of þe suburbanys [a1550 Wemyss suburbynis]..Assemblit befor þe emperoure.

1841 S. Bamford Passages Life Radical (ed. 2) I. xxxiv. 203 He passed on, leaving those warm-hearted suburbans capering and whooping like mad.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 1 Sept. 3/1 All good suburbans congratulate themselves on the choice of their abode.

1926 R. Macaulay Crewe Train ii. vi. 129 Don't waste time arguing about the accepted premises of life, of which one is that suburbans are dull.

1977 Transatlantic Rev. No. 60. 197 She laughed..being confused by Mr and Mrs Superb the Semi-Detached Suburbans strolling their Sealyhams, for woodpeckers.

2000 C. Baldridge Graham Greene's Fictions ii. 58 Spiritual suburbans are spiritual suburbans, whether they drink in Brighton pubs or kneel before Mexican altars.

†b. A residence situated in a suburb. Obsolete. rare.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house in specific situation

townhouse1571

garden house1598

corner-house1693

wharf-house1698

notch house1825

suburban1856

twilight home1934

twilight house1971

townhome1976

1856 J. H. Newman Callista xxii. 195 Can truth give me a handsome suburban with some five hundred slaves.

B. adj.

a. Of or belonging to the suburbs, or a suburb; that resides or operates in the suburbs; situated or taking place in the suburbs.In the 17th cent. often with negative sense, with reference to the immoral or licentious practices of the suburbs, esp. of London (cf. suburb n. Compounds 2, suburbian adj.). In modern use also depreciative, implying a homogeneity and dull monotony within the suburbs.

ΘΚΠ

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 > [adjective] > suburbs

suburbedc1450

suburban1583

suburbian1606

suburbicary1655

suburbican1659

peri-urban1935

out-city1939

1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) I. 13/1 Places suburbane, bordering about the Citie of Rome.

a1630 Faithful Friends (1975) ii. ii. 1312 To yeild at first encounter may befitt the State, of some Suburbane strumpet, but not her.

1631 R. Brathwait Cater-character i. 4 in Whimzies A pestilent head-peece hee ha 's to blow up Suburbane Traders: with whom hee trucks.

a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 18/2 The Rich had stately Monuments on the sides of the publick ways in their own suburbane fields.

1751 T. Edwards in S. Richardson Corr. (1804) III. 19 I will hope that..the air of your agreeable suburbane North-End, will restore you.

1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 481 Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, That dread th' encroachment of our growing streets.

1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. iv. 120 His chosen intimate..continued to be..Mr. John Irving—his suburban walks with whom have been recollected so tenderly.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 351 They reside..at suburban country seats surrounded by shrubberies and flower gardens.

1883 Law Times 75 130/2 The speculative builder..has become the pest of suburban London.

1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 302 You know that particular quarter, the monotonous brick streets, the weary suburban highways.

1981 Observer 15 Feb. 12 The idea that I have served my political life in rolling pastures or leafy suburban avenues..is ludicrous.

2001 M. Azerrad Our Band could be your Life i. 20 The suburban kids who followed Black Flag and other bands tended to be disaffected jocks and surfers.

b. Of a railway service, line, or route: that runs between the centre of a city and its suburbs. Of a train: that follows such a route.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > a railway > forming part of a system > types of

branch line1825

sideline1831

stem1832

light rail1836

suburban1839

branch railway1840

main line1841

spurring1842

local line1843

trunk line1843

extension1852

feeder1855

main trunk1858

loop-line1859

loop1863

spur1878

main1886

spur line1924

1839 Railway Times 2 64 This [sc. the railway of Brighton] was a suburban railway, and consequently one of a very expensive character.

1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 379 The Suburban line, from the Salt River station to Wynberg, is now open.

1910 H. G. Wells Hist. Mr. Polly v. 118 He was rattled along on the suburban train to Johnson's discreet home.

1966 Economist 26 Feb. 798/1 The bankrupt suburban railway services in the East.

1978 G. M. Kichenside & A. Williams Brit. Railway Signalling (ed. 4) iii. 25 Most heavily-trafficked trunk or suburban routes have been either partially or completely resignalled.

2010 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 1 Nov. This will allow separation of outstation trains from the suburban line, thus improving the suburban services.

2. Characteristic of (life in) the suburbs; esp. (depreciative) having or expressing the narrowness of view or lack of sophistication often attributed to residents of the suburbs.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > suburban

suburban1789

1789 R. Cumberland Arundel II. lxxxiii. 157 He has not yet put up a board in the suburban stile to warn unwary intruders against men-traps and pits.

1818 Ld. Byron Beppo lxiii. 33 A fifth's look's vulgar, dowdyish, and suburban.

1860 R. W. Emerson Worship in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 196 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house.

1909 R. F. Sharp Short Hist. Eng. Stage xi. 148 Sadler's Wells, a theatre that up to this time had been regarded as utterly ‘suburban’, but was now to take the lead in intelligent dramatic entertainment.

1976 S. Heaney Preoccupations (1984) 153 Its sensuous fetch..recalled English poetry in the fifties from a too suburban aversion of the attention from the elemental.

1994 S. J. Douglas Where Girls Are (1995) photo section following p. 146 The Ronettes expressed teen-girl rebellion against middle-class suburban mores.

†3. = suburbicarian adj. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > offices or officials > [adjective] > diocese

suburbican1610

suburbicary1615

suburbicarian1639

urbic1664

urbicary1665

suburbicarial1688

suburb bishopric1813

suburban1858

1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 204 Two names are given in.., those of Hyppolytus, a suburban clergyman, and of Caius, whose charge lay within the city itself.

Compounds

suburban neurosis n. a set of psychological, or psychological and physical symptoms, said to occur particularly amongst suburban housewives, associated with feelings of boredom, anxiety, loneliness, and lack of personal fulfilment; cf. new town blues n. at new town n.¹ Compounds 2.Now chiefly historical or represented as a discredited concept.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > neurosis > other forms of neurosis

neuromimesis1873

accident neurosis1896

suburban neurosis1938

Munchausen syndrome1951

Polle syndrome1977

chronic factitious disorder1980

fabricated or induced illness1994

1938 S. J. L. Taylor in Lancet 26 Mar. 759/1 I hope to show that environment plays no less a part in the production of what I venture to call ‘the suburban neurosis’ than it does in the production of physical disease.

1962 Listener 6 Dec. 948/2 The so-called ‘suburban neurosis’ is due to society's having failed to provide a constructive role for these mothers.

2001 B. Montgomery & L. Morris Living with Anxiety 20 If the patient is a woman, her anxiety is likely to be dismissed with labels such as ‘suburban neurosis’ or ‘housewife's syndrome’.

suburban sprawl n. the rapid and uncontrolled expansion of a suburban area into the surrounding countryside; an area characterized by this; cf. urban sprawl n. at urban adj. and n. Compounds.

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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 > unsightly

suburban sprawl1938

subtopia1955

slurb1962

1938 Times 10 June 10/2 If these new developments were well placed..they would waste much less agricultural land and spoil far less country than the unregulated suburban sprawl that is happening to-day.

1958 Listener 19 June 1022/3 The transformation of most of the country into a gigantic suburban sprawl.

1972 Country Life 6 Jan. 18/1 The suburban sprawl that characterises much of the eastern seaboard of the northern United States.

2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Aug. iv. 3/1 Supporters..say higher-density land use in cities is one key to easing suburban sprawl.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	suburban
释义	suburbann.adj. Brit. /səˈbəːb(ə)n/, U.S. /səˈbərbən/ Forms: Middle English 1600s– suburban, 1500s–1600s suburbane; also Scottish pre-1700 suburban, pre-1700 suburbyn. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin suburbānum; Latin suburbānus. Etymology: As noun partly (i) < classical Latin suburbānum country seat near a city, in post-classical Latin also suburb (4th cent.), use as noun of neuter of suburbānus (see below), and partly (ii) < post-classical Latin suburbanus inhabitant of a suburb near a city (11th cent.), use as noun of masculine of classical Latin suburbānus (see below). As adjective < classical Latin suburbānus situated close to a city (usually Rome), (of people) living near a city, (of habits) characteristic of those living near a city < sub- sub- prefix + urbānus urban adj. Compare Middle French, French suburbain, adjective (c1380; rare before the 19th cent.), Spanish suburbano, adjective (1490), Italian suburbano (a1547 as noun in sense ‘person who resides in a suburb’, a1597 as adjective). A. n. †1. In plural, with the. The suburbs. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ 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 > collectively suburbc1350 suburbans?c1400 suburblec1540 outshifts1592 skirts1616 environsc1660 outpart1722 outlets1762 suburbia1870 'burb1977 ?c1400 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Sidney Sussex) ii. 46 Þe suburbanes of gomorre [L. de suburbaniis gomorre]. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) ix. l. 681 He brynt þe suburbanys of Carleil. 2. a. A person who resides in a suburb. Frequently depreciative in later use, implying a dull ordinariness or lack of sophistication. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > inhabitant of suburbs suburban1468 suburbian1606 suburbanite1855 Metrolander1926 subtopian1958 1468 Medulla Gram. (St. John's Cambr.) f. 105^v, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Suburban Suburbanus, a suburban [a1425 Stonyhurst subarbe; ?c1460 BL Add. 33534 manens sub vrbe; a1500 Harl. 2257 qui manet sub vrbe]. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 2914 A gret part of þe citeȝanys, And mony of þe suburbanys [a1550 Wemyss suburbynis]..Assemblit befor þe emperoure. 1841 S. Bamford Passages Life Radical (ed. 2) I. xxxiv. 203 He passed on, leaving those warm-hearted suburbans capering and whooping like mad. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 1 Sept. 3/1 All good suburbans congratulate themselves on the choice of their abode. 1926 R. Macaulay Crewe Train ii. vi. 129 Don't waste time arguing about the accepted premises of life, of which one is that suburbans are dull. 1977 Transatlantic Rev. No. 60. 197 She laughed..being confused by Mr and Mrs Superb the Semi-Detached Suburbans strolling their Sealyhams, for woodpeckers. 2000 C. Baldridge Graham Greene's Fictions ii. 58 Spiritual suburbans are spiritual suburbans, whether they drink in Brighton pubs or kneel before Mexican altars. †b. A residence situated in a suburb. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house in specific situation townhouse1571 garden house1598 corner-house1693 wharf-house1698 notch house1825 suburban1856 twilight home1934 twilight house1971 townhome1976 1856 J. H. Newman Callista xxii. 195 Can truth give me a handsome suburban with some five hundred slaves. B. adj. 1. a. Of or belonging to the suburbs, or a suburb; that resides or operates in the suburbs; situated or taking place in the suburbs.In the 17th cent. often with negative sense, with reference to the immoral or licentious practices of the suburbs, esp. of London (cf. suburb n. Compounds 2, suburbian adj.). In modern use also depreciative, implying a homogeneity and dull monotony within the suburbs. ΘΚΠ 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 > [adjective] > suburbs suburbedc1450 suburban1583 suburbian1606 suburbicary1655 suburbican1659 peri-urban1935 out-city1939 1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) I. 13/1 Places suburbane, bordering about the Citie of Rome. a1630 Faithful Friends (1975) ii. ii. 1312 To yeild at first encounter may befitt the State, of some Suburbane strumpet, but not her. 1631 R. Brathwait Cater-character i. 4 in Whimzies A pestilent head-peece hee ha 's to blow up Suburbane Traders: with whom hee trucks. a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 18/2 The Rich had stately Monuments on the sides of the publick ways in their own suburbane fields. 1751 T. Edwards in S. Richardson Corr. (1804) III. 19 I will hope that..the air of your agreeable suburbane North-End, will restore you. 1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 481 Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, That dread th' encroachment of our growing streets. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. iv. 120 His chosen intimate..continued to be..Mr. John Irving—his suburban walks with whom have been recollected so tenderly. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 351 They reside..at suburban country seats surrounded by shrubberies and flower gardens. 1883 Law Times 75 130/2 The speculative builder..has become the pest of suburban London. 1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 302 You know that particular quarter, the monotonous brick streets, the weary suburban highways. 1981 Observer 15 Feb. 12 The idea that I have served my political life in rolling pastures or leafy suburban avenues..is ludicrous. 2001 M. Azerrad Our Band could be your Life i. 20 The suburban kids who followed Black Flag and other bands tended to be disaffected jocks and surfers. b. Of a railway service, line, or route: that runs between the centre of a city and its suburbs. Of a train: that follows such a route. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > a railway > forming part of a system > types of branch line1825 sideline1831 stem1832 light rail1836 suburban1839 branch railway1840 main line1841 spurring1842 local line1843 trunk line1843 extension1852 feeder1855 main trunk1858 loop-line1859 loop1863 spur1878 main1886 spur line1924 1839 Railway Times 2 64 This [sc. the railway of Brighton] was a suburban railway, and consequently one of a very expensive character. 1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 379 The Suburban line, from the Salt River station to Wynberg, is now open. 1910 H. G. Wells Hist. Mr. Polly v. 118 He was rattled along on the suburban train to Johnson's discreet home. 1966 Economist 26 Feb. 798/1 The bankrupt suburban railway services in the East. 1978 G. M. Kichenside & A. Williams Brit. Railway Signalling (ed. 4) iii. 25 Most heavily-trafficked trunk or suburban routes have been either partially or completely resignalled. 2010 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 1 Nov. This will allow separation of outstation trains from the suburban line, thus improving the suburban services. 2. Characteristic of (life in) the suburbs; esp. (depreciative) having or expressing the narrowness of view or lack of sophistication often attributed to residents of the suburbs. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > suburban suburban1789 1789 R. Cumberland Arundel II. lxxxiii. 157 He has not yet put up a board in the suburban stile to warn unwary intruders against men-traps and pits. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo lxiii. 33 A fifth's look's vulgar, dowdyish, and suburban. 1860 R. W. Emerson Worship in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 196 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house. 1909 R. F. Sharp Short Hist. Eng. Stage xi. 148 Sadler's Wells, a theatre that up to this time had been regarded as utterly ‘suburban’, but was now to take the lead in intelligent dramatic entertainment. 1976 S. Heaney Preoccupations (1984) 153 Its sensuous fetch..recalled English poetry in the fifties from a too suburban aversion of the attention from the elemental. 1994 S. J. Douglas Where Girls Are (1995) photo section following p. 146 The Ronettes expressed teen-girl rebellion against middle-class suburban mores. †3. = suburbicarian adj. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > offices or officials > [adjective] > diocese suburbican1610 suburbicary1615 suburbicarian1639 urbic1664 urbicary1665 suburbicarial1688 suburb bishopric1813 suburban1858 1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 204 Two names are given in.., those of Hyppolytus, a suburban clergyman, and of Caius, whose charge lay within the city itself. Compounds suburban neurosis n. a set of psychological, or psychological and physical symptoms, said to occur particularly amongst suburban housewives, associated with feelings of boredom, anxiety, loneliness, and lack of personal fulfilment; cf. new town blues n. at new town n.¹ Compounds 2.Now chiefly historical or represented as a discredited concept. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > neurosis > other forms of neurosis neuromimesis1873 accident neurosis1896 suburban neurosis1938 Munchausen syndrome1951 Polle syndrome1977 chronic factitious disorder1980 fabricated or induced illness1994 1938 S. J. L. Taylor in Lancet 26 Mar. 759/1 I hope to show that environment plays no less a part in the production of what I venture to call ‘the suburban neurosis’ than it does in the production of physical disease. 1962 Listener 6 Dec. 948/2 The so-called ‘suburban neurosis’ is due to society's having failed to provide a constructive role for these mothers. 2001 B. Montgomery & L. Morris Living with Anxiety 20 If the patient is a woman, her anxiety is likely to be dismissed with labels such as ‘suburban neurosis’ or ‘housewife's syndrome’. suburban sprawl n. the rapid and uncontrolled expansion of a suburban area into the surrounding countryside; an area characterized by this; cf. urban sprawl n. at urban adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ 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 > unsightly suburban sprawl1938 subtopia1955 slurb1962 1938 Times 10 June 10/2 If these new developments were well placed..they would waste much less agricultural land and spoil far less country than the unregulated suburban sprawl that is happening to-day. 1958 Listener 19 June 1022/3 The transformation of most of the country into a gigantic suburban sprawl. 1972 Country Life 6 Jan. 18/1 The suburban sprawl that characterises much of the eastern seaboard of the northern United States. 2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Aug. iv. 3/1 Supporters..say higher-density land use in cities is one key to easing suburban sprawl. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.?c1400
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