rural

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Old French rural < Latin rūrālis (“rural”), from rūs (“countryside”) + -ālis.

Adjective

rural (comparative more rural, superlative most rural)

1. pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas.
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, Lord Stranleigh Abroad^[1]:

     Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins … .

Synonyms

• campestral
• landly

Antonyms

• urban
• suburban

Related terms

• ruralistic

Translations

pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas

• Arabic: فَلاحِي (ar) (fallāḥiyy), قَرَوِيّ (ar) (qárawiyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 農村的 (cmn), 农村的 (cmn) (nóngcūn de)

• Czech: venkovský (cs)
• Danish: tyndtbefolket, rural (da)
• Esperanto: kampara (eo)
• Finnish: maalaismainen (fi), maalais- (fi)
• French: rural (fr)
• German: ländlich (de), dörflich (de)
• Greek: αγροτικός (el) (agrotikós) m

• Indonesian: pedesaan (id)
• Italian: rurale (it)
• Japanese: 農村 (ja) (のうそん, nōson), いなかの (ja) (inaka no), ルーラル (ja) (rūraru)
• Polish: wiejski (pl) m
• Portuguese: rural (pt)
• Russian: сельский (ru) (sélʹskij), деревенский (ru) (derevénskij)
• Spanish: rural (es)
• Telugu: గ్రామీణ (graameeNa)
• Turkish: kırsal (tr)
• Yiddish: דאָרפֿיש (yi) (dorfish)

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French

Etymology

From Latin rūrālis (“rural”), from rūs (“countryside”) + -ālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ry.ral/

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Adjective

rural m (feminine rurale, masculine plural ruraux, feminine plural rurales)

1. Rural

Synonyms

• chaptère

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin rūrālis (“rural”), from rūs (“countryside”) + -ālis.

Adjective

rural m

1. rural

Descendants

• English: rural (borrowed)
• French: rural

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin rūrālis (“rural”), from rūs (“countryside”) + -ālis.

Adjective

rural m and f (plural rurais; comparable)

1. rural

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin rūrālis (“rural”), from rūs (“countryside”) + -ālis.

Adjective

rural m and f (plural rurales)

1. rural