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Another word for rural

rural Synonyms

rural

modif.

rustic, country, farm, agricultural, pastoral, bucolic, backwoods, provincial, Arcadian, sylvan, agrarian, georgic, agronomic, ranch, exurban.

Antonyms urban*, industrial, commercial.

rural is the comprehensive, nonspecific word referring to life on the farm or in the country as distinguished from life in the city rural schools; rustic stresses the contrast between the supposed crudeness and unsophistication of the country and the supposed polish and refinement of the city rustic humor; pastoral, often used in literary contexts, suggests a highly idealized primitive simplicity of rural life, originally among shepherds; in contrast, bucolic, also a literary term, suggests a down-to-earth rustic simplicity or artlessness her bucolic suitor

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Another word for rural

adjective

Of or relating to the countryside:

arcadian, bucolic, campestral, country, pastoral, provincial, rustic. (Informal) hick. See urban

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Pop. including a large rural district and several villages (1890), 31,498; (1908, estimate), 33,000.
In 1905 the institute took up the work of rural school extension.
Howie spotted Cummings picking up Jennie Lohr as she hitchhiked to town from her rural Kansas farm.
The nobles from this time forward retired into the country and the mountains, fortified themselves in strong places outside the cities, and gave their best attention to fostering the rural population.
Until I was ten years old, my family lived in rural east Texas.

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