All 6 Uses of
suburban
in
Girl Interrupted
- I did need a rest, particularly since I'd gotten up so early that morning in order to see this doctor, who lived out in the suburbs.†
- It was very quiet out in the suburbs before eight in the morning.
*suburbs = a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
- Even in lives like his, professional lives lived out in the suburbs behind shrubbery, there was a strange undertow, a tug from the other world—the drifting, drugged-out, no-last-name youth universe—that knocked people off balance.†
- The seclusion room was the size of the average suburban bathroom.†
- "A suburban junkie," said Lisa.†
- I'm a suburban matron in Brookline.†
Definition:
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(suburban) relating to a residential area located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded