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rural Definition


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rural
adj
    1. Relating to or suggestive of the countryside; pastoral or agricultural.
      Thesaurus: country, rustic, pastoral, bucolic, agrarian, backwoods, agricultural, sylvan; exurban (US); Antonym: urban.
Derivative: rurality
noun
Etymology: 15c: French, from Latin ruralis, from rus, ruris the country.



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