exurb
nounUK /ˈɛɡˌzɜːb/ · US /ˈɛɡˌzɝb/
Etymology Blend of extra + urban.
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A residential area beyond the suburbs.
- I had my first taste of a collapsing exurb last night.2008 July 21, Megan McArdle, “Exurbs delenda est”, in The Atlantic:
- Lots of cities are exurbs of other cities for reasons of finance or infrastructure.2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 91:
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- 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.2023 July 7, Paul Salopek, “China's Hinge”, in National Geographic: