exurb
/ˈɛɡˌzɝb/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A residential area beyond the suburbs.
Example Sentences
- "I had my first taste of a collapsing exurb last night."
- "Lots of cities are exurbs of other cities for reasons of finance or infrastructure."
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɛɡˌzɝb/
- British English: /ˈɛɡˌzɜːb/