how to pronounce suburban

/səˈbɜː.bən/

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suburban is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of suburban in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… normal suburban life to our friends and …”

meaning of suburban

Suburban means a suburb of a city.

suburban frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word suburban occurs in english on average 6.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics suburban can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that suburban can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;

2) transport and travel;