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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of the country.
  2. adjective Of or relating to people who live in the country: rural households.
  3. adjective Of or relating to farming; agricultural.
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  • None of them dared to hope that this newly minted billionaire, city-born and city-bred, would continue to live in what urban politicians called a rural wasteland. —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_13_The_Cat_Who_Moved_a_Mountain
  • Address: A city-dweller typically may pay a higher premium than someone who lives in the suburbs or a rural area. —  Consumer Action
  • A variety of procedural obstacles have historically reduced participation by poor, rural, and indigenous people, but implementation in 2007 of voting reform legislation nearly doubled the number of polling places, resulting in higher participation in rural areas, including among indigenous people.
  • Virginia built a broadband Internet service for their rural areas. —  News from www.pantagraph.com
  • Aimed at ensuring food security in Nigeria, rural development, enterprise development in the rural areas, employment generation, declaration of rural-urban drift and creating export market ready agricultural product, the programme, according to Alhaji Sayidi Abba Ruma, the Minister of Agriculture, is sure to succeed. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin rūrālis, from rūs, rūr-, country; see reuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French (and F.) rural = Provencal Spanish Portuguese rural = Italian rurale, from Latin ruralis, rural, from rūs (rūr-), the country, perhaps contr. from rovus or *ravus, and akin to Russian raviina, a plain, Zend ravan, a plain, English room: see room. Hence ult. (from Latin rus) also rustic, rusticate, etc., roister, roist, etc.
 

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