Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who resides in a rural area.
- n. An advocate of rural life.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who leads a rural life.
Wiktionary
- n. One that exhibits characteristics or qualities of rural life; one that exhibists or believes in ruralism.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who leads a rural life.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a man who lives in the country and has country ways
- n. an advocate of rural living
Etymologies
- rural + -ist (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I would love to get out there and do just that, but I'm a ruralist — not always by choice.”
“I suspect they are partly responsible for the ruralist strain you still find in my politics.”
“Ultimately pagan in its presuppositions, perennialism is used today to promote the victory of an anti-Catholic, secularist, rightist, racist, misogynist, ruralist movement.”
“It has transformed pro-urban, non-ruralist calls for Catholic Social criticism—like my own-- into back-to-the-land Distributist arguments which bear no relation to them, and all Distributist arguments into neo-Communo-Nazi propaganda five minutes away from overturning the foundations of Holy Church.”
“Harper appeared to align himself strongly with the conservative, ruralist Union Nationale which, under Duplessis, ruled Quebec for 15 years beginning in 1944.”
“The lone fisherman of the Isaak Walton type had become, in the New World, the wood-walker, the flower-hunter, the bird-fancier, the berry-picker, and many another variety of the modern ruralist.”
“He was a type of the southern ruralist, broad, flapping straw hat, home-woven shirt, cottonade trousers, one suspender.”
“And here let us say that the mere dilettante and the amateur ruralist may as well keep their hands off.”
Old Portraits, Part 1, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches
“Yet, he still embodies many of the older ruralist sentiments that thrived here in an era defined by man-versus-nature.”
“Celebrities of every political hue have joined in the party, from Jeremy Clarkson, who complains that his birds peck him, to nouveau-ruralist Liz Hurley and battery-chicken rescuers Pam Ayres and Amanda Holden.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ruralist’.
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removalist, agriculturalist, constitutionalist, nationalist, colloquialist, maximalist, serialist, zimbalist, journalist, cruciverbalist, imperialist, industrialist and 88 more...
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Enter the Rustics
A fanfare for the Common Man. Words for rustics, yokels, and woolhats of all sorts.
woolhat, yokel, rustic, hucklebuck, hick, redneck, bogan, goober, hayseed, bumpkin, countryman, peasant and 70 more...
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