单词 | exurb |
释义 | exurb orig. U.S.|ˈɛksɜːb| [f. L. ex out of + urbs city, or back-formation f. next.] A district outside a city or town; spec. a prosperous area situated beyond the suburbs of a city.
1955[see exurbia]. 1957Economist 16 Nov. 596/2 They have scattered to the four corners of the country and into the suburbs and ‘exurbs’. 1966L. J. Braun Cat who could read Backwards (1967) ii. 16 To reach the fashionable exurb fifteen miles beyond the city limits, Qwilleran drove through complacent suburbs. 1967Observer 1 Oct. 27/6 Levittown..is not any arcadian upper middle-class exurb. |

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