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rural
[ roor-uhl ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic:
agricultural fairs and festivals throughout the rural towns of Georgia.
Synonyms: rough, unsophisticated
Antonyms: urban
- living in the country:
the rural population.
- of or relating to agriculture:
rural economy.
noun
- a person who lives in a rural area.
rural
/ ˈrʊərəl /
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of the country or country life
- living in or accustomed to the country
- of, relating to, or associated with farming
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Derived Forms
- ˈruralism, noun
- ˈrurally, adverb
- ˈruralist, noun
- ruˈrality, noun
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Other Words From
- ru·ral·ism noun
- ru·ral·ist ru·ral·ite noun
- ru·ral·ly adverb
- ru·ral·ness noun
- non·ru·ral adjective
- non·ru·ral·ly adverb
- qua·si-ru·ral adjective
- qua·si-ru·ral·ly adverb
- sem·i·ru·ral adjective
- sem·i·ru·ral·ly adverb
- sem·i·ru·ral·ism noun
- un·ru·ral adjective
- un·ru·ral·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rural1
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Example Sentences
These are young fathers, rural farmers, usually growing banana or coffee or subsistence crops.
For the first time in American history, rural America has been losing population.
She is also head of the Sabancı Foundation, which conducts female-empowerment programs for women in rural Turkey.
Rural churches were deserted, and the connection between the land and the bounty of harvests was gone.
“In almost all rural areas of Switzerland, it is customary to eat cats and dogs,” she says.
There are many more good dwellings on this plain than in the rural portion of Lower Italy.
The hospitals in the capital were crowded with wounded soldiers, brought in at great risk from the rural districts.
Here again we have the landscape of Lorraine and the eternal and infinitely varied theme of rural labour.
This rule however does not apply to travelers walking along a rural highway.
Then it is sung softly like the farmhand quartettes do in the rural melodrama outside the old homestead in harvest time.
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