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Suburban vs Suburbanize - What's the difference?

suburban | suburbanize |

As an adjective suburban

is relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city.

As a noun suburban

is an automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis.

As a verb suburbanize is

to make suburban; to convert or adapt to a suburb.

suburban

English

(wikipedia suburban)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city.
  • * Cowper
    • Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, delight the citizen.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An automobile with a station wagon body on a truck chassis.

    • Related terms

    * suburb * periphery * environs

    Antonyms

    * nonsuburban

    suburbanize

    English

    Verb

    (suburbaniz)
  • To make suburban; to convert or adapt to a suburb.
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    • , passage=Only in 2007 they are less about pure socialism than a kind of suburbanized version of it. }}

    Related terms

    * suburbanization