Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To make or become rural.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render rural; give a rural character or appearance to.
- To go into the country; dwell in the country; rusticate.
- Also spelled
ruralise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To render rural; to give a rural appearance to.
- intransitive verb To become rural; to go into the country; to rusticate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
rural .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Take a guy who, for all intense purposes, was locked into second-banana land, who in reality was a war hero, who attempted to ruralize the growing urban sprawl by promoting the old-time front yard garden and ended up being the father of Earth Day, who then became super popular for playing an uptight man thrown into the most ridiculous circumstances...
The First Accusations of Surrealism Jaime J. Weinman 2009
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There was too much society; one could not ruralize enough.
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Mr.C. S. Harrison: Mr. C.airman, I think the slogan of this society should be "Urbanize the country and ruralize the town."
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"Come along, we shall easily find a nice cottage to-morrow, or get into some farm-house, and ruralize for a month or two delightfully."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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If thee should come this way next summer, to ruralize, thee might behold our swollen Schuylkill, and say, Enough!
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There was too much society; one could not ruralize enough.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897
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There was too much society; one could not ruralize enough.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II W. H. Wilkins 1882
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Joppa -- the last being an isolated spot on Oneida Lake, to which they go to bathe, fish, shoot, and otherwise ruralize.
The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation Charles Nordhoff 1865
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He would ruralize at some little country inn, near a river, on half-a-crown a day, and he would spend no other money than what was necessary for tobacco.
Renée Mauperin Edmond de Goncourt 1859
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It served only to emphasize how, despite all fascism’s efforts to ruralize Italy, the cities remained islands of relative prosperity and good eating.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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