单词 | suburbial |
释义 | suburbialadj. Now rare. Of or relating to the suburbs; suburban. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [adjective] > suburban suburbial1602 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 101 Yet do they prescribe, in a suburbiall market (as I may terme it) to Plymmouth, for their reliefe. ?1684 P. Fisher Tombes, Monuments, & Sepulchral Inscriptions St. Pauls 157 I shall speak more fully in my great History of the Tombs of London, and the suburbial parts. 1778 T. Warton Note on Henry IV Pt I i. ii, in S. Johnson & G. Steevens Plays of Shakspeare (rev. ed.) V. 266 Moor-ditch..opened to an unwholesome and impassable morass, and consequently [was] not frequented by the citizens, [?un-]like other suburbial fields which were remarkably pleasant. 1861 H. Stephens & R. S. Burn Bk. Farm-buildings Index 560/2 Suburbial dairy farming. 1906 G. McBride et al. tr. J. P. Canto Econ. & Social Progr. Chile ii. ii. 122 Other lines of service exist in the rural or suburbial sections of the city. 2003 T. M. Alexander in W. J. Gavin In Dewey's Wake 152 The appropriation of land without thought for the sake of human suburbial migration. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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