exurbia
/ɛkˈsəːbɪə
/noun [mass noun]
The exurbs collectively; the area beyond the suburbs.Accordingly, Buell's purpose in the new book is to ‘put ‘green’ and ‘brown’ landscapes, the landscapes of exurbia and industrialization, in conversation with one another.’...
- No, we're paving over the prime farmland as Americans flee out into exurbia, trying to flee the overcrowded housing stock in Miami, New York, Los Angeles, etcetera.
- This once small town is being increasingly populated by white Americans looking for ‘stability and safety’ in the ever-expanding subdivisions of exurbia.
Origin
1955 (originally US, see exurb) 'out of' + -urbia, on the pattern of suburbia.
Rhymes
- Dukakis, Michael Stanley
- Dukakis, Olympia
- duke
- duke cherry
- dukedom
- Duke of Argyll's tea tree
- dukun
- DUKW
- dulcamara
- dulce de leche
- dulce et decorum
- dulce et decorum est
- dulcet
- dulcian
- dulciana
- dulcification
- dulcify
- dulcimer
- dulcitone
- dulia
- dull
- dullard
- dull as dishwater
- dull-coloured
- Dulles, John Foster