• Rural

    Origin

    From Old French rural < Latin rūrālis ("rural"), from rūs ("countryside") + -ālis.

    Full definition of rural

    Adjective

    rural

    1. 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 … .

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