rural

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   living in or characteristic of farming or country life

   rural people

2. 2
   adj

   of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city

   rural electrification

3. 3
   adj

   Relating to the countryside or to agriculture.

   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 … .

4. 4
   noun

   A person from the countryside; a rustic.

Etymology

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