Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Rural

Rural , adjective

[French, from Latin ruralis, from rus, ruris, the country. Compare 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. — Shakespeare
2.
Of or pertaining to agriculture; as, rural economy.
We turn To where the silver Thames first rural grows. — Thomson
Lay bashfulness, that rustic virtue, by; To manly confidence thy throughts apply. — Dryden
Collocations (2)
Rural dean (Ecclesiastical) , See under Dean.
Rural deanery (Ecclesiastical) , the state, office, or residence, of a rural dean.