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cyburban

adj

Etymology

From blend of cyber + suburban, and/or equivalent to cyber- + urban.

  1. derived from *gʰerdʰ-✻ — “to encircle, enclose; a belt; an enclosure, fence”
  2. derived from urbānus — “of or belonging to a city, urban; of manners or style: like those of city dwellers: cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated”
  3. borrowed from urbain — “belonging to a city, urban; courteous, refined, urbane”
  4. formed as suburban — “sub- + urban”
  5. compounded as cyburban — “cyber + suburban”

Definitions

  1. Related to online communities or cyberspace.

    • Just as early malls commodified public life under the rhetoric of community building, then, the owners of cyburban space could do the same.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cyburban. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA