exurbanite
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
exurbanite (plural exurbanites)
- A person who lives in an exurb.
Coordinate terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
exurbanite (plural exurbanites)
- Alternative form of ex-urbanite.
Usage notes[edit]
Prescriptively, this homonym best retains the hyphen (ex-urbanite) to avoid confusion or ambiguity versus the other homonym. An added wrinkle is that the two concepts can be coinstantiated, either coincidentally or (in some countries, such as the United States) via white flight. The retention of the hyphen to preserve an orthographic difference to signal the semantic (sense) difference puts this unusual pair into a class whose usual suspects include recreation versus re-creation, retreat versus re-treat, and unionized versus un-ionized.