Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of the country.
- adjective Of or relating to people who live in the country.
- adjective Of or relating to farming; agricultural.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; belonging to or characteristic of the country.
- Pertaining to agriculture or farming: as, rural economy.
- Living in the country; rustic.
- Synonyms Rural, Rustic, Pastoral, Bucolic. Rural is always used in a good sense, and is applied chiefly to things: as, rural pleasures; rural scenery. Rustic is used in a good sense, but also has a sense implying a lack of the refinements of the town or city: as, rustic gallantry. Pastoral means belonging to a shepherd or his kind of life; bucolic, belonging to the care of cattle or to that kind of life. Pastoral is always used in a good sense; bucolic is now often used with a shade of contempt.
- [Cowper applies rural to persons as well as things.]
- noun A countryman; a rustic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic.
- adjective Of or pertaining to agriculture.
- adjective (Eccl.) See under
Dean . - adjective (Eccl.) the state, office, or residence, of a rural dean.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective pertaining to less-
populated , non-urban areas.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city
- adjective living in or characteristic of farming or country life
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Enchanting villa, suitable for rural tourism - Tenerife - chalet para ´hotel rural´
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But after six years of living in what they call a rural haven, they saw a bulldozer begin tearing down nearby forests to make way for new homes.
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Perhaps my attraction for the rural is attributed to the town where I was born -- La Mesa.
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Perhaps my attraction for the rural is attributed to the town where I was born -- La Mesa.
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"I suppose that is what you call a rural sight -- a barefoot girl, with a burnt face and huge sunbonnet?"
Dora Deane Mary Jane Holmes 1866
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In one case, CDS enlisted four MBA volunteers to develop tourism in rural Nigeria.
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Did you really need a gun permit in rural Texas during the 50s?
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As a precocious teenage DJ in rural Washington State, Mr. Beck decided his destiny was to work in the famed studios of Radio City, which he encountered in the liner notes of a double-album called The Golden Years of Radio.
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And Verlyn Klinkenborg, an accomplished poet-essayist of the rural, is the steady voice on the page to all that is green within us.
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When I was working at a pre-school in rural Honduras, I asked my students how many of them had an immediate family membermojado – illegal – in the States.
generationnext commented on the word rural
I find this word so hard to pronounce sometimes, especially when you are speaking fast!
March 29, 2007
Prolagus commented on the word rural
You're not alone.
May 23, 2010