rustic
See also: rústic
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin rūsticus. Doublet of roister.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rustic (comparative more rustic, superlative most rustic)
- Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven
- She had a rustic, woodland air.
- late 1700s, Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves
- The Princely revel may survey
Our rustic dance wi' scorn.
- 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, →OCLC:
- With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection.
- 1820, Washington Irving, Rural Life in England in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon:
- To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven
- Unfinished or roughly finished.
- rustic manners
- Crude, rough.
- rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
- Simple; artless; unaffected.
- 1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry:
- the manners not too polite nor too rustic
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
country-styled
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unfinished, roughly finished
crude, rough
NounEdit
rustic (plural rustics)
- A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
- 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226:
- The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding the little meadow.
- 1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter IX, in Sir Nigel:
- The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.
- 1927-29, Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part V, The Stain of Indigo, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai
- Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.
- A noctuoid moth.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
TranslationsEdit
person from a rural area
noctuoid moth — see noctuoid
Cupha erymanthis
AnagramsEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French rustique, from Latin rusticus.
AdjectiveEdit
rustic m or n (feminine singular rustică, masculine plural rustici, feminine and neuter plural rustice)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of rustic
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | rustic | rustică | rustici | rustice | ||
| definite | rusticul | rustica | rusticii | rusticele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | rustic | rustice | rustici | rustice | ||
| definite | rusticului | rusticei | rusticilor | rusticelor | |||