Rural

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the country.
  • adj. Of or relating to people who live in the country: rural households.
  • adj. Of or relating to farming; agricultural.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to agriculture.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.]
  • n. A countryman; a rustic.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city
  • adj. living in or characteristic of farming or country life
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    urban    suburban   
    Cross Reference
    simple    artless    rural dean   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rustic    campestral   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Durrell    Ural    intramural    mural    neural    plural    ural   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    urban    rustic    peaceful    western    Irish    Jewish    pastoral    suburban    provincial