Category:Rural

Ru"ral, a. Etym: [f., fr. L.ruralis, fr. rus, ruris, the country. Cf. Room space, rustic.]

1. Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or Town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the Country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect. Here is a rural fellow;. . . He brings you figs. Shak.

2. Of or pertaining to agriculture; as, rural economy. Rural dean. (eccl.) See under dean. -- rural deanery (eccl.), the state, office, or residence, of a Rural dean.

Syn. -- rustic. -- rural, rustic. Rural refers to the country itself; as, rural Scenes, prospects, delights, etc. Rustic refers to the character, Condition, taste, etc., of the original inhabitans of the country, Who were generally uncultivated and rude; as, rustic manners; a Rustic dress; a rustic bridge; rustic architecture, etc. We turn to where the silver thames first rural grows. Thomson. Lay bashfulness, that rustic virtue, by; to manly confidence thy Throughts apply. Dryden.