suburbia
su·bur·bia
noun
1.
a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
2.
suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture
Origin
PIE word *upó From suburb + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns, the names of collections of things, etc.), perhaps modelled after Latin suburbia (“suburbs”), the plural of suburbium.
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