Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being rural.
- noun A rural trait or characteristic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being rural; ruralness.
- noun That which is rural; a characteristic of rural life; a rusticity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being rural.
- noun A rural place.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state of being
rural . - noun countable A rural
characteristic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rural characteristic or trait
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But if you want a suggestion, either state the truth about comparative "rurality" or excise the statement altogether.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] LRose 2009
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But if you want a suggestion, either state the truth about comparative "rurality" or excise the statement altogether.
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Life expectancy at birth, according to the research, "improved with increasing 'rurality' and those born in village and dispersed areas could expect to live longer than those in town and fringe areas.
Country dwellers live longer, report on 'rural idyll' shows 2010
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Rurality said this on February 8, 2008 at 10:04 am | Reply rurality…Thanks and welcome.
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With the study showing a strong link between Welsh language ability and rurality, this trend could lead to a ‘brain drain’ from areas of Wales that can least afford to lose their young people to the more prosperous, but less Welsh speaking urban areas.
Archive 2008-03-01 Dylan Jones-Evans 2008
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Sherry at the Zoo said this on March 17, 2008 at 5:50 am | Reply rurality, thanks, you can say whatever you want, within reason of course ;
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This is because Welsh needs are different - not just in health as Adam points out, but all over - things like rurality and road length/quality play a part, as do the economic realities in Wales compared to most of England.
Barnett again 2008
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And thanks for passing rurality on to us to check out.
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Some Japanese Watteau must have mapped out this Donko-Tchaya, for it has rather an affected air of rurality, though very pretty.
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Perhaps it was the natural reaction from the Mountains of the Moon; but in my then state of mind no prospect could appear more delicious than a long tramp among the quiet scenes through which the city fringes itself off into rurality.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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