rural
of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: agricultural fairs and festivals throughout the rural towns of Georgia.
living in the country: the rural population.
of or relating to agriculture: rural economy.
a person who lives in a rural area.
Origin of rural
1synonym study For rural
Other words for rural
Opposites for rural
Other words from rural
- 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
Words that may be confused with rural
Words Nearby rural
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How to use rural in a sentence
The DFC confirmed a $5 million equity investment in Copia Global, a Kenya-based e-commerce and logistics startup that focuses on under-served consumers in rural areas.
The Trump administration is investing in African e-commerce startups focused on rural areas | Yomi Kazeem | September 10, 2020 | QuartzThe true total is likely higher, as the country’s testing capacities are limited, especially in rural areas.
Scientists are trying to explain why so few Kenyans are dying of coronavirus | Olivia Goldhill | September 9, 2020 | QuartzYadav moved from his rural home in the eastern state of Bihar a decade ago in search of a job that would allow him to send his two kids to school.
India’s megacities aren’t prepared for a wave of climate migrants | Manavi Kapur | September 3, 2020 | QuartzAnd, two rural customers – Fallbrook and Rainbow – are in the process of leaving the Water Authority because they’re fed up with its rising rates.
The Water Authority Is Resurrecting Its Pipe Dream – Again | MacKenzie Elmer | September 1, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoEastern Washington is largely rural and conservative, but state politics are dominated by the urbanized coastal region.
Vote by mail doesn’t really change much, election-wise | John Timmer | August 27, 2020 | Ars Technica
These are young fathers, rural farmers, usually growing banana or coffee or subsistence crops.
How Good Dads Can Change the World | Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTFor 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.
Will the Swiss Quit Cooking their Kittens and Puppies? | Barbie Latza Nadeau | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere are many more good dwellings on this plain than in the rural portion of Lower Italy.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyThe hospitals in the capital were crowded with wounded soldiers, brought in at great risk from the rural districts.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanHere again we have the landscape of Lorraine and the eternal and infinitely varied theme of rural labour.
Bastien Lepage | Fr. CrastreThis rule however does not apply to travelers walking along a rural highway.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesThen it is sung softly like the farmhand quartettes do in the rural melodrama outside the old homestead in harvest time.
The Real Latin Quarter | F. Berkeley Smith
British Dictionary definitions for rural
/ (ˈrʊərəl) /
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
Origin of rural
1- Compare urban
Derived forms of rural
- ruralism, noun
- ruralist, noun
- rurality, noun
- rurally, adverb
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