1. a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town.
Examples from the web for suburbanite
- For a suburbanite, few experiences are more wrenching than watching a lush green lawn turn brown and scraggly.
- The gore, however, is used to illustrate that the character is a true-blue postwar suburbanite at heart.
British Dictionary definitions for suburbanite
noun 1. a person who lives in a suburb
Word Origin and History for suburbanite
n. 1890, from suburban + -ite (1). Middle English used suburban (n.) in this sense (mid-14c.).