exurb
noun/ˈɛɡˌzɜːb/UK/ˈɛɡˌzɝb/US
Etymology
Blend of extra + urban.
- derived from urbānus — “of or belonging to a city, urban; of manners or style: like those of city dwellers: cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated”
Definitions
A residential area beyond the suburbs.
- I had my first taste of a collapsing exurb last night.
- Lots of cities are exurbs of other cities for reasons of finance or infrastructure.
- Miles of exurbs bristle with hundreds—no, thousands—of apartment towers. These monoliths soar like gigantic dominoes into a dust-whitened sky. The area was hand-tilled cornfields when Lui grew up in Xi’an in the 1980s.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for exurb. 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