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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People who work at hundreds of rural hospitals are also watching closely.
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Born near Rochester in Newark, New York, on Oct. 7, 1924, Ketcham’s father was a milkman and his mother taught in a one-room rural schoolhouse.
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Night + Market West Hollywood, $ Kris Yenbamroong’s Thai canteen takes on the aggressive flavors of rural northern Thailand.
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Tractor supplies Shares of rural lifestyle retailer Tractor Supply Co. (Nasdaq: TSCO) were recently down 43 percent from their 52-week high, giving investors a chance to buy a piece of the industry leader for a relatively low price.
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In Nepal, especially in rural areas, many girls and women are sent into isolation (usually to sheds outside) during their periods because of the belief that menstruation is linked with bad luck and impurity.
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Large groups of African-Americans fled the rural South for the cities of the north during a period known as (the Great Migration, which began in 1916.
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Lopez was one of three children who grew up in rural Colorado with her nominally, but not devoutly, Catholic family.
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Supporters say the idea is for the therapists to work in concert with a licensed dentist but be more mobile, visiting people in nursing homes and underserved rural areas to perform basic oral exams and fill and pull some teeth.
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Origin and Etymology of rural
Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin ruralis, from rur-, rus open land — more at room
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: of or relating to the country and the people who live there instead of the city
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: relating to the country, country people or life, or agriculture
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