suburban

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs

   suburban population

2. 2
   adj

   Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city; of or relating to suburbia or the suburbs.

   Suburban villas, highway-ſide retreats, / That dread th' encroachment of our growing ſtreets, / Tight boxes, neatly ſaſh'd, and in a blaze / With all a July ſun's collected rays, / Delight the citizen, who gaſping there, / Breathes clouds of duſt and calls it country air.

3. 3
   noun

   A person who lives in a suburb.

4. 4
   noun

   An automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis.

Etymology

From Latin suburbanus, from prefix sub- (“under”) + urbs (“city”) + -anus (“adjective suffix”), equivalent to sub- + urban.