rural

Etymology

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

adj

  1. Relating to the countryside or to agriculture.
    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 … . 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad

noun

  1. (obsolete) A person from the countryside; a rustic.

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