Dictionary

exurb en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɛkˌsɝb/ (General-American)
• /ˈɛkˌsɜːb/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈɛɡˌzɜːb/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈɛɡˌzɝb/ (General-American)

Etymology

Blend of extra + urban.

Meanings

1. 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:
   • 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, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2023:

Forms

Relateds

exurban

Synonyms

exurbia