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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rural
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rural area (=in the countryside)
▪ Schools in rural areas are often very small.
a rural community (=a community in a country area)
▪ There is a need for better public transport for people in rural communities.
a rural district (=in the countryside)
▪ There are few schools in the rural districts of Bangladesh.
a rural migrant (=someone who moves from a country area to a city)
▪ Rural migrants end up in the slums of Brasilia.
a rural/country craft (=done in the countryside)
▪ The museum contains exhibits of old rural crafts.
a rural/urban setting
▪ The research station is located in a rural setting.
a rural/urban/suburban existence (=life in the country/city/suburbs)
▪ The girls hated their drab suburban existence.
an agricultural/a rural economy (=one that is based mainly on farming)
▪ The early 1920s saw a rapid expansion in the American agricultural economy.
rural delivery
rural idyll
▪ a rural idyll
rural/industrial/urban etc landscape
the rural poor (=poor people who live in the countryside)
▪ Difficult economic conditions have driven millions of the rural poor to cities.
the rural population (=the people who live in the countryside)
▪ Agricultural reforms must address the needs of the rural population.
urban/rural poverty
▪ People come to the capital seeking to escape rural poverty.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
affair
▪ Those organisations reflect interests from conservation to tourism, from business to rural affairs, and from education to art history.
▪ Yakovlev observed that state publications for 1922 from Gosizdat and Krasnaia Nov' included nothing on agricultural and rural affairs.
area
▪ This poses enormous problems for developing countries with severely limited educational resources, especially in the rural areas of those countries.
▪ Thomas's colorful history began years before with the tent shows that traveled the South bringing entertainment to rural areas.
▪ Some parents moved their children to rural areas to avoid the disruption and continue their schooling.
▪ The Klan firebombed black homes, churches, and schools in over one hundred towns and rural areas.
▪ In rural areas, however, literacy in any language was estimated to be only 20 percent.
▪ Burglaries may sound petty, but there are a lot of formerly rural areas that are being developed.
▪ Can he give any assurance about the future of such services in rural areas?
▪ The attitudinal differences between northern and southern whites are most dramatic in smaller cities and rural areas, they say.
community
▪ Laura saw it as a project for saving jobs and therefore helping the survival of the rural community.
▪ The rest were either medical personnel or rural community development workers.
▪ In a topic on industrialisation one might look at the effect of industrialisation on a rural community without work.
▪ Castan o has promised to assassinate anyone who assists rural communities that are believed to support the rebels.
▪ The transformation of rural communities, therefore, has led to new social divisions.
▪ Its strong defence of farming interests is designed to win the support of the large rural community.
▪ Swaminathan is also encouraging rural communities to embrace new practices to improve farming.
▪ This was true of the industrial areas but also the rural communities which had ancient Catholic communities.
development
▪ The latter is increasingly seen as an important factor in rural development.
▪ Objective: Funding of rural development programmes, mainly for the poorest Third-World countries.
▪ A different but not exclusive approach is to insist upon a conservation element being included in most rural development projects.
▪ The central plank of the new policy was rural development.
▪ The Council argued the proposed change of operating centre on tree nursery land did not conform with rural development in that area.
▪ District councils controlled 73 percent of government funds allocated to rural development.
▪ There is however, no justification in making their establishment an essential pre-condition for initiating rural development programmes.
district
▪ Before the reorganisation by the 1972 Act, the parish was part of a rural district for local government purposes.
▪ No one living in a rural district can altogether escape the indirect power of these influences.
▪ District councils came into being as a result of the 1974 legislation which, interalia, abolished rural district councils.
▪ Parishes For local government purposes the parish had only existed within the boundaries of the former rural district councils.
▪ Li Changping, a rural district leader in Jianli county, said he wrote his letter with tears in his eyes.
▪ The district of Copeland includes the rural districts of Ennerdale and Millom where some of the greatest fall-out occurred.
▪ All rural districts witness the phenomenon of ` boy racers' who take each other on in secluded country lanes.
▪ In many rural districts provision was still patchy and enforcement of attendance sporadic.
economy
▪ Apart from agriculture, what are the other important elements in the rural economy?
▪ The rural economy and domestic industry have developed quite far in Connecticut; the people there are happy.
▪ In the long term, seven to 10 years, most effects would be offset as the rural economy adjusted.
▪ An interesting feature of the rural economy is the way in which these sectoral employment changes are interlinked.
▪ Another feature of the rural economy is its relationship with urban labour markets.
▪ The stability of the rural economy may, inpart be dependent on the effects of climatic change.
▪ Farmers' activities, which are the backbone of the rural economy, are vital to the survival of whole communities.
▪ The other specific role of government in the rural economy has been the attempt to create jobs, mainly by fostering manufacturing.
environment
▪ To others it will be a rural environment which they are looking to protect.
▪ Their activities thus linked up with more general efforts to protect the rural environment.
▪ The regenerative technologies are beneficial for both farmers and rural environments.
▪ The possibilities for current and prospective changes in such policies are creating uncertainties over the future of the rural environment.
▪ One view is that rural manufacturing growth stems from the preferences of employers for rural environments.
▪ They are fighting for the protection of their largely rural environment.
▪ Their more rural environments have not only attracted people there for holidays and retirement, but also induced elements of industrial growth.
▪ In two senses the rural environment currently puts children at a disadvantage.
housing
▪ It follows that policies for rural housing do not consider the social implications which might result from their implementation.
▪ The danger is that current rural housing policies will produce a polarization of the rural population.
▪ During the 1970s the provision of rural housing for those who can not partake in the market sector has been pitiful.
▪ This classification is a useful starting point for the study of rural housing.
▪ The problems of rural housing went almost untouched.
▪ The crux of the tied cottage problem, it was argued, was the shortage of rural housing.
▪ The developments that have taken place in the rural housing market illustrate vividly the paradoxical nature of contemporary changes in village life.
landscape
▪ The second type of rural landscape is the traditional mixed farm ... but mechanised and often enlarged.
▪ Above the desk hung a rural landscape which I was able to recognize as the work of Mrs Nugent.
▪ On the walls, now, hung simple rural landscapes.
▪ Yet even here the actual extent to which the rural landscape was altered is considerably less than we might suppose.
▪ Much of our wildlife is gone, and rural landscapes impoverished.
▪ Colourful parasols dot its fine shingle beach and, inland, rolling rural landscapes await those who like to explore.
▪ Leapor's poems on rural landscape are among the earliest to register the conflicts associated with the enclosure movement.
▪ It looks out over a peaceful rural landscape.
life
▪ Their aim was to make rural life feasible and culturally viable.
▪ I can't say I don't miss the rural life, and ultimately I see myself in Napa Valley.
▪ The path pursued particularly matched the clergy's vision of the profanity of towns and sacrality of rural life.
▪ He rightly sought to disentangle the tiny farming industry from most of rural life.
▪ The image of a golden age is central both to Leapor's and to Goldsmith's treatment of rural life.
▪ But Sophie Ryder is a sculptor who finds artistic merit in the more mundane aspects of rural life.
▪ The hardships in the countryside in the 1930s were given an added bitterness by official rhetoric on the virtues of rural life.
▪ Moreover, they were largely deprived of the stability and continuity of traditional rural life.
people
▪ Therefore rural people have tended to have large surpluses extracted from them through low prices enforced by parastatal marketing boards.
▪ The issue facing the conscious planner is to devise a process which genuinely considers the interests of rural people.
▪ We can not afford to undervalue the traditional knowledge of rural people.
▪ The region, in 1930, had only three million inhabitants, and 70 percent of the rural people had no electricity.
▪ Lack of internal capital and entrepreneurial experience mean that rural people are often not able to take advantage of such opportunities.
▪ Efforts must be directed to stimulating latent creative abilities of rural people.
▪ As was to be expected, town dwellers were better informed than rural people.
▪ For the rural people of the Third World time is short.
population
▪ Pressure on the land mounted as the rural population swelled by some 25 Percent between 1877 and 1905.
▪ With rising rural population and the end of the cereal boom, farm wages away from industrial areas simply stagnated.
▪ Their access to education is even more limited than that of the rural population generally.
▪ The ever-increasing flow of scientific and technological advances is of little significance to a rural population living at or below subsistence level.
▪ But once the rural population became fully integrated into industrial work, capitalist societies have shown a markedly different development.
▪ For the rural population these policies could also be seen as the direct answer to its immediate problems.
▪ Moreover, tensions exist between the rural population and the town-dwellers who buy second homes in the more accessible areas of countryside.
▪ It is therefore prudent to examine both periods in turn before attempting to produce any general statements about rural population change.
poverty
▪ Most of the loss is attributed to population growth and rural poverty, leading to land clearance for agriculture.
▪ Scattered about, a few large, forlorn sunflowers make a game attempt to brighten a scene of dismal rural poverty.
▪ Dole overcame both rural poverty and, even more remarkably, war wounds that might have killed a lesser person.
▪ There, governors were aggressively courting companies like Rohr to help offset high unemployment and rural poverty.
▪ These problems include those associated with rural poverty, malnutrition, population changes and environmental degradation in developing nations.
▪ For forty years villagers have streamed into its fetid blocks, seeking to escape rural poverty.
▪ Little public attention was paid to rural poverty before Rowntree undertook a survey in 1912.
▪ Rowntree attempted no detailed quantification of rural poverty, in view of the wide scope of his inquiry.
school
▪ There was also a massive expansion in the formal schooling system, with an emphasis on building rural schools.
▪ The experiment seems to have worked to some extent in rural schools with farms attached.
▪ Those schools having no pupils absent were all either small and/or rural schools.
▪ Educationists must modify or supplement teacher training courses soas to cater for those who will work in rural schools.
▪ After a few rosy years teaching in the rural school I got a job on a city estate.
▪ One reason may be the chronic shortage of funds that requires many rural schools to make up their budgets by irregular means.
▪ We will support rural schools and improve public transport.
▪ If size of school at some stages is related to educational opportunities then the retention of small rural schools is inequitable.
society
▪ This meant that the cities which ultimately grew up within this rural society were of a different character from the surrounding countryside.
▪ Atheism is virtually unknown in pagan and rural societies, but this new rationalism will usher it into the modern world.
▪ Like it or not, it is a fact that religion is more dominant and persistent in rural societies than industrial ones.
▪ Anglicans were still too heavily committed to an organization suited to a predominantly rural society.
▪ The distinction between education and schooling becomes clear in a rural society.
▪ Despite a land reform initiative in the early 1980s, rural society remains polarized.
village
▪ Even sleepy rural villages were turned into minor railway settlements with the coming of the railways.
▪ I grew up during the 1930s in a little rural village in central Ohio.
▪ The population of the majority of rural villages was therefore dependent upon agriculture for a living.
▪ He emphasized the continuity, not the break, between the rural village and the city church.
▪ The urban street and the rural village are both, in their different ways, educational backwaters.
▪ The migration process frequently involves a chain of relatives from rural village to urban neighbourhood.
▪ Framsden mill and its environs will illustrate what I mean about the compactness and self-sufficiency of the rural villages in East Anglia.
▪ All of this made the rural village an extremely close-knit society.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a rural development program
▪ a magazine about rural life
▪ At that time, much of rural Ireland was desperately poor.
▪ Compared to Los Angeles, Santa Barbara is rural.
▪ Crime is a concern in both rural and urban areas.
▪ The committee will investigate ways of recruiting doctors and nurses for rural communities.
▪ There continues to be a shortage of jobs for young people in many rural areas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Meanwhile, prostitution increases in rural areas, where unemployment has tripled and school drop-out rates for girls are soaring.
▪ Patients in rural areas were also more likely to need urgent laser photocoagulation.
▪ The authors point out that their study was done in a rural area and results may differ with urban clients.
▪ The possibilities for current and prospective changes in such policies are creating uncertainties over the future of the rural environment.
▪ These problems include those associated with rural poverty, malnutrition, population changes and environmental degradation in developing nations.
▪ They felt that the proposed development would detract from the rural character of the area because of its size, height and bulk.
▪ While the industrial sector remained small in real terms, much industrial production continued to be located in rural areas.
▪ Within this stunned silence anger mounts, and another disaster could well tip rural politics over the edge.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rural

Rural \Ru"ral\, a. [F., fr. L. ruralis, fr. rus, ruris, the country. Cf. Room space, Rustic.]

  1. Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect.

    Here is a rural fellow; . . . He brings you figs.
    --Shak.

  2. Of or pertaining to agriculture; as, rural economy.

    Rural dean. (Eccl.) See under Dean.

    Rural deanery (Eccl.), the state, office, or residence, of a rural dean.

    Syn: Rustic.

    Usage: Rural, Rustic. Rural refers to the country itself; as, rural scenes, prospects, delights, etc. Rustic refers to the character, condition, taste, etc., of the original inhabitants of the country, who were generally uncultivated and rude; as, rustic manners; a rustic dress; a rustic bridge; rustic architecture, etc.

    We turn To where the silver Thames first rural grows.
    --Thomson.

    Lay bashfulness, that rustic virtue, by; To manly confidence thy throughts apply.
    --Dryden.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rural

early 15c., from Old French rural (14c.), from Latin ruralis "of the countryside," from rus (genitive ruris) "open land, country," from PIE *reue- (1) "to open; space" (see room (n.)).In early examples, there is usually little or no difference between the meanings of rural and rustic, but in later use the tendency is to employ rural when the idea of locality (country scenes, etc.) is prominent, and rustic when there is a suggestion of the more primitive qualities or manners naturally attaching to country life. [OED]\nRelated: Rurally.

Wiktionary
rural

a. Pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas.

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WordNet
rural

  1. adj. living in or characteristic of farming or country life; "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural" [ant: urban]

  2. relating to rural areas; "rural electrification"; "rural free delivery (RFD)"

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Gazetteer
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Wikipedia
Rural (disambiguation)

A rural area is a geographic area that is located outside cities and towns.

Rural may also refer to:

  • Rural, Indiana
  • Rural, Ohio
  • Rural, Wisconsin
  • La Rural, an agricultural and livestock show in Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • The Rural Channel, a Canadian television channel
  • Rural TV, a British television channel
  • Feist v. Rural, a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States
  • Universidad Rural, in Guatemala
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Usage examples of "rural".

Hutchinson has little leisure for much praise of the natural beauty of sky and landscape, but now and then in her work there appears an abiding sense of the pleasantness of the rural world--in her day an implicit feeling rather than an explicit.

The vinegar of Wood Anemone made from the leaves retains all the more acrid properties of the plant, and is put, in France, to many rural domestic purposes.

Gaean Reach and Alastor Cluster, especially those with rural populations, a new profession has come into existence: the man skilled in star-naming and star-lore.

And within that avaricious little pack, none is so poisonously selfcentered and incorrigible as the small town businessman of rural America.

He had converted the innocent rural bawdry of the masque into a sophisticated vileness.

I suggest finding some rural property and the lady can help you find a tutor for Beel, she can.

Ghuda Bule, catered to a rougher clientele: wagon drivers, mercenaries, farmers bringing crops into the city, and rural soldiers.

While rich travelers stayed at the large hostels in the city or at palatial inns along the silvery beaches, the Inn of the Dented Helm, owned by Ghuda Bule, catered to a rougher clientele: wagon drivers, mercenaries, farmers bringing crops into the city, and rural soldiers.

Being a man of letters, Byles Gridley naturally rather undervalued the literary acquirements of the good people of the rural district where he resided, and, having known much of college and something of city life, was apt to smile at the importance they attached to their little local concerns.

Pompey Strabo had been a more typical product of his rural origins, had known only one way to deal with wells, cesspits, latrines, rubbish disposal, drainage: when the stink became unbearable, move on.

Monday afternoon Marvin Oates was pulling his suitcase on wheels down a rural road that traversed cattle acreage and pecan orchards, across a bridge that spanned a coulee lined with hardwoods and palmettos, past neat cottages with screened porches and shade trees.

Mennonite preachers, he, here named never to be named again, inspects the dike tops, the enrockment and the groins, and drives off the pigs, because according to the Rural Police Regulations of November 1848, Clause 8, all animals, furred and feathered, are forbidden to graze and burrow on the dike.

Urbanization around the world has generally marked a radical shift in environment and values from culturally homogenous small towns and rural areas to heterogenous, ethnically, culturally and even racially mixed cities.

Helena medal--a distinction awarded to survivors of the Napoleonic campaigns, and who lives at Grand Fayt, also in the Nord--is one hundred and three years old, and has been for the last sixty-eight years a sort of rural policeman in his native commune.

Not quite as geekish as his friend Jeff had been before the Ring of Fire deposited their hometown in seventeenth-century Germany, but still something of an oddball in rural West Virginia.