RUSTICISM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A rural idiom or expression

Synonyms:

ruralism; rusticism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("rusticism" is a kind of...):

idiom; idiomatic expression; phrasal idiom; phrase; set phrase (an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up)

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