Rural
Origin
From Old French rural < Latin rÅ«rÄlis ("rural"), from rÅ«s ("countryside") + -Älis.
Full definition of rural
Adjective
rural
- pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas.
- 1913, w, Lord Stranleigh Abroad Chapter 4, Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins … .