Definition of rural
: of or relating to the country, country people or life, or agriculture
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Examples of rural in a Sentence
She lives in a rural area.
grew up in a rural community where more than half the people were farmers
Recent Examples of rural from the Web
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That meant dealers included rural women, urban women, black and white women.
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In rural America, the cultural barriers for Democrats remain formidable.
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An area ripe for that test is Brat’s 7th Congressional District, a swath of central Virginia that includes rural Republican enclaves west of Richmond as well as suburbs outside the state capital that have grown more Democratic in recent years. ...
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In rural or conservative counties, firearms often are raffled or auctioned off at banquets and crab feed dinners such as the one held February in Cameron Park to raise money for firefighters.
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This rural, deep red county voted for Trump in a big way: the president handily won with 61.8 percent of the vote.
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The problems extend to rural hub cities such as Bethel or even Nome, a community that was an early pioneer of the nation's 911 system.
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Trying to create one is the prerogative of a person hampered by an extremely partial vision of a rural sublime.
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Last year, nearly 105,000 Haitians — or the equivalent of 1 percent of Haiti’s population — flocked to the South American nation as part of a mass exodus driven by Haiti’s young people, both educated and uneducated, and particularly the rural poor.
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Origin and Etymology of rural
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Definition of rural for English Language Learners
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: of or relating to the country and the people who live there instead of the city
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Definition of rural for Students
: relating to the country, country people or life, or agriculture
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