suburbia

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The suburbs of a city, considered as a place and way of life.

   He grew up in the quiet streets of suburbia.

2. 2
   noun

   The suburbs seen as representing a dull, conventional middle-class lifestyle.

   The play satirises the conformity and boredom of suburbia.

PIE word *upó From suburb + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns, the names of collections of things, etc.), perhaps modelled after Latin suburbia (“suburbs”), the plural of suburbium.

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