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.
2.
Of or pertaining to agriculture; as, rural economy.
We turn
To where the silver Thames first rural grows.
Lay bashfulness, that rustic virtue, by;
To manly confidence thy throughts apply.
Collocations (2)
Rural deanery (Ecclesiastical) , the state, office, or residence, of a rural dean.