ethnoburb en · NOUN
Etymology
From ethno- + burb, coined in 1997 by Dr. Wei Li.
Meanings
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(US) A suburban residential and business area with a notable cluster of a particular ethnic minority population.
Immigrant elders leave a familiar home, some without electricity or running water, for a multigenerational home in communities like Fremont that demographers call ethnoburbs.
2009 August 31, Patricia Leigh Brown, “Invisible Immigrants, Old and Left With ‘Nobody to Talk To’”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ethnoburbs | Number=Plur | lexicographic |