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ethnoburb

ethnoburb noun: a suburban residential and business area with a notable cluster of a particular ethnic minority population.

Noun

ethnoburb (plural ethnoburbs)

  1. (US) A suburban residential and business area with a notable cluster of a particular ethnic minority population.
    • Immigrant elders leave a familiar home, some without electricity or running water, for a multigenerational home in communities like Fremont that demographers call ethnoburbs.2009 August 31, Patricia Leigh Brown, “Invisible Immigrants, Old and Left With ‘Nobody to Talk To’”, in New York Times

Forms of ethnoburb

pluralethnoburbs

Origin of ethnoburb

From ethno- + burb, coined in 1997 by Dr. Wei Li.

Questions about ethnoburb

What does ethnoburb mean?
Ethnoburb means a suburban residential and business area with a notable cluster of a particular ethnic minority population.
What part of speech is ethnoburb?
Ethnoburb is a noun.
What is the plural of ethnoburb?
The plural of ethnoburb is ethnoburbs.

Words near ethnoburb in the dictionary

  1. ethnobotanics
  2. ethnobotanies
  3. ethnobotanist
  4. ethnobotanists
  5. ethnobotany
  6. ethnoburb
  7. ethnoburban
  8. ethnoburbs
  9. ethnocacerism
  10. ethnocartography
  11. ethnocentred

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