suburbanites

noun

Definition of suburbanitesnext
plural of suburbanite
as in urbanites

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  1. towns
  2. inhabitants
  3. dwellers
Noun
  • Shoppers unable to afford iPhones and kitchen appliances in Argentina arrive at Chilean border towns by the busload to get the most bang from their buck.
    Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Dec. 2024
  • At least 37 people were killed – both regime forces and allied militia – and rebels seized 13 villages, including the strategic towns of Urm al-Sughra and Anjara, as well as Base 46, the largest Syrian regime army base in western Aleppo, according to a statement by opposition factions at the time.
    Antoinette Radford, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of towns
Noun
  • Genuine peril causes the game’s inhabitants to scatter.
    Lewis Gordon, The Verge, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Excavations conducted at the ancient site of Shakhi Kora in northern Iraq, as part of the Sirwan Regional Project, have revealed that the inhabitants of the settlement adopted centralized governing systems but eventually abandoned them.
    Gairika Mitra, Interesting Engineering, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of inhabitants
Noun
  • Not surprisingly, though, apartment dwellers are at the greatest risk for porch piracy, with 8 percent of respondents reporting having had a package stolen within the past three months.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Rural and suburban dwellers, having left the city during the pandemic, are now wasting 12 hours or more in transit a week due to return-to-office mandates.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2024
Definition of dwellers
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