Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Rurality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being rural.
- noun An idiom or expression peculiar to the country as opposed to the town.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being rural; ruralness.
- noun A rural idiom or expression.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Advocacy of
rural life instead ofurbanism or city living. - noun
Rural living. - noun The state or quality of being
rustic . - noun countable A
rural idiom orexpression .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rural idiom or expression
- noun a rural characteristic or trait
Etymologies
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Examples
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The current trend toward urban living is accompanied by a new ruralism and new suburbs.
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America desperately needs a reborn, moderate Republican Party freed from narrow-minded religious ideology and ruralism that will return the nation to its former democratic values and multilateral policies.
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The Khmer Rouge insisted on ruralism, with an economy based only on crafts and traditional agriculture.
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They tap into an emerging farmland-preservation movement dubbed "new ruralism," a counterpart to the new urbanism philosophy that promotes dense, walkable neighborhoods.
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Critical questions about this unknown quantity are being beaten back for now with counter charges of sexism, ruralism, familyism and anything else the McCain camp can throw into the blame-the-media strategy.
Peggy Drexler: Big Night for the Republican's New Alpha Girl. But What Now? 2008
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In this regard, the Prime Minister said that all the technicians should be placed in accordance with the needs of the country, and he said: "We must promote a minimum of urbanism and a maximum of ruralism."
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Here, for the first time, had Marcella been brought face to face with the agricultural world as it is -- no stage ruralism, but the bare fact in one of its most pitiful aspects.
Marcella Humphry Ward 1885
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In addition to being a proscribed ethnic group by the government, the Chinese were predominantly city-dwellers, making them vulnerable to the Khmer Rouge's revolutionary ruralism.
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In addition to being a proscribed ethnic group by the government, the Chinese were predominantly city-dwellers, making them vulnerable to the Khmer Rouge's revolutionary ruralism.
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For a large part of Carpenter's legacy was the socialist inclination for a primitivist, Arts and Crafts ruralism that would find its most celebrated outlet in the Garden City movement.
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009
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