a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town
Word origin
[1885–90; suburban + -ite1]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: foregut, lineup, reactor, seminar, zoom-ite is a suffix of nouns denoting esp. persons associated with a place, tribe, leader,doctrine, system, etc. (Campbellite; Israelite; laborite); minerals and fossils (ammonite; anthracite); explosives (cordite; dynamite); chemical compounds, esp. salts of acids whose names end in -ous (phosphite; sulfite); pharmaceutical and commercial products (vulcanite); a member or component of a part of the body (somite)
Examples of 'suburbanite' in a sentence
suburbanite
To a suburbanite, no adjective is more enticing than 'leafy'.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
A rebellious suburbanite was speaking to the other rebellious suburbanites in a language they could understand and relate to.