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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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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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While Stockholm and Oslo’s open-air museums focus on rural folk life, Den Gamle By in Aarhus, Denmark, shows Danish urban life through the centuries.
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But Clover, who grew up in rural Idaho in the 1980s, learned a lot from her less-than-glamorous experiences working at a grocery store—
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A year later, groups like the West Fund, who service many rural patients, are still trying to re-educate people.
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In 1966, General Wilson took control of military and civilian forces in rural Long An Province in South Vietnam and began applying those principles there.
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With U.S. medical schools struggling to churn out enough doctors to meet the demand in rural and other underserved areas, overseas programs that cater to their admission rejects are helping to pick up the slack.
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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
RURAL Defined 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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: relating to the country, country people or life, or agriculture
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