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suburbia

noun as in Middle America

noun as in outskirts

noun as in silent majority

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Example Sentences

Hostility to the non-urban regions includes a detestation of suburbia.

Growing up in that suburbia and air of pop culture, these images stayed with me like a weird dream.

Camberwell (in South London) was still seen as suburbia in the 1920s.

He documented America as it really was, from the political unrest to the rise of suburbia.

Santa is a fixture in a fixture in holiday calendars, at malls, and on lawns across suburbia.

In her most rebellious moods the leaven of Philistia (or the British equivalent, Suburbia) comes to the surface.

Only, it'll be kind of sad to see the old planets go—to be replaced by a wonderful super-suburbia.

He bore the stamp of suburbia all over him, and his accent was peculiarly that of London.

Instead of having arrived at distinction they had come to new red-brick suburbia in a grimy, small town.

He spoke with a cultured English accent more than a Cockney or a suburbia accent.

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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to suburbia, such as: bourgeoisie, silent majority, subtopia, and the burbs.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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