Definition of Suburban

Suburban

Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city.

One who dwells in the suburbs.

Related Definitions:

Being, City, In, Inhabiting, Of, One, Or, Pertaining, The, To, Who

Suburban Quotations

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Marshall McLuhan

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.
Billy Bragg

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
Ezra Pound

I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.
Jerry Falwell

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.
Helmut Jahn

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.
Helmut Jahn

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
Helmut Jahn

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
Anthony Trollope

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.
Jonathan Kozol

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Peter De Vries

I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.
Richard M. Daley

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.
Derek Luke

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.
Katherine Dunn

In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.
Joe Bob Briggs

We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.
Peter Bergman

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
Van Jones

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Suburban Translations

suburban in Spanish is suburbano

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