exurban

English

Alternative forms

• ex-urban

Adjective

exurban

1. Of, pertaining to, or residing in an exurb.
   • 2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), page 84:

     Mirella had a story about a duplex in a housing development of identical duplexes, exurban Cleveland, cornfields on one side and an expressway on the other.

Coordinate terms

• nonurban
• rural
• suburban
• urban

 

Related terms

• exurbanite