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RURAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Living in or characteristic of farming or country life
Example:
an economy that is basically rural
Classified under:
Similar:
agrarian; agricultural; farming (relating to farming or agriculture)
agrestic; rustic (characteristic of the fields or country)
arcadian; bucolic; pastoral ((used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic)
campestral (of fields or open country)
countrified; countryfied; rustic (characteristic of rural life)
country-bred (rough and uncouth)
country-style (typical of the country)
cracker-barrel; homespun (characteristic of country life)
hobnailed (marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails)
Antonym:
urban (located in or characteristic of a city or city life)
Derivation:
rurality (a rural characteristic or trait)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city
Example:
rural free delivery
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
country (an area outside of cities and towns)
Derivation:
rurality (a rural characteristic or trait)
Context examples:
Worse still, many of those 3 billion people are in the most vulnerable situations: those with disabilities, the elderly, women and girls, displaced people, indigenous populations and those living in the hardest-to-reach rural areas.
(Slightly dirty water ‘still ok’ against coronavirus, SciDev.Net)
The study also shows that micronutrient deficiency to be worse in India’s urban areas than in the rural hinterland.
(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)
The filter prototype, tested in Al Haouz, a rural district about 40 kilometres from Marrakech, removed a large amount of waste such as solid particles, organic pollution, nitrogen and fertiliser residue.
(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)
A chronic tubulointerstitial nephropathy that affects people in certain rural areas along the Danube river in the Balkans.
(Balkan Endemic Nephropathy, NCI Thesaurus)
She was born in a rural district of England, where life proceeds by rule of thumb and the unexpected is so very unexpected that when it happens it is looked upon as an immorality.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It might be even more worrisome, in that kids in urban environments are operating in more of a toxic chemical soup than kids in a more rural environment.
(Infants, Toddlers at More Risk from Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke than Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The system could provide cheap and low-tech water filtration to rural, arid areas, such as the North African and Asian deserts, where water preservation is crucial for farmers and expensive, industrial water purification is not available.
(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)
