suburbia

Betekenis (Engels)

The suburbs as a whole and all that characterizes or pertains to them; (sometimes derogatory) the suburbs as encapsulated or represented by the typical characteristics or qualities of the people living there, especially complacency, conformity, conservativeness, dullness, etc.

Concepten

voorstad

buitenwijk

Synoniemen

suburb

suburban area

housing estate

outskirts

residential district

sprawl

addition

outlying district

district

Vertalingen

borgo

subúrbio

Vorstadt

suburbio

faubourg

Vorort

banlieue

periferia

zone suburbaine

Banlieue

borgata

sobborgo

banlèga

periferia

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/səˈbɜː.bɪ.ə/

Etymologie (Engels)

PIE word
*upó
From suburb + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns, the names of collections of things, etc.)