rural
//ˈɹʊəɹəl//
formalForms
- Comparative
- more rural
- Superlative
- most rural
Definitions
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 … .
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2454
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Antonyms
Etymology
From Old French rural
From Latin rūrālis (“rural”)
From rūs (“countryside”) + -ālis.