Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a rural manner; as in the country: as, the cottage is rurally situated at some distance from the body of the town.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a rural manner; as in the country.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
rural way. - adverb In a
rural place; in thecountryside
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a rural manner
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Examples
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LEE: But this is a little different from Wal-Mart's plan to expand rurally, which is what they've done up until now.
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Another area, one new to me, was rurally isolated.
Ruralshire Election Results SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Farming Today (Radio 4) obviously speaks to a core audience of people working rurally in agriculture, but it's also a lovely urban listen, tucked up in bed in a half-snooze on a chilly, wet morning with wind rattling the windows.
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There's a spiritual advantage to living rurally and being so close to the earth and what it has to offer.
...his days are like grass.... Gumbo Lily 2009
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Their album, "Why There are Mountains," somehow is full of rurally influenced landscape-rock completely void of too much New York (sure, there's such a thing), presenting just a bunch of pretty great, smartly produced songs that incorporate the best parts of Pavement, Modest Mouse, and even Sufjan Stephens into something completely unharnessed but totally controlled like watching a bucking bronco writhe safely in the ring.
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I grew up rurally, on a lonely road, in a ranch house.
The Achitecture of Fear Heather McDougal 2007
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It's a long way from Iowa and New Hampshire to Denver, and if Hilary craps out quickly, Edwards could benefit, especially among more rurally-conservative Democrats.
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I grew up rurally, so when there was no one around, stop signs and trees became catchers, tree limbs became bats, and there wasn't a rock or dirt clod in sight that was safe.
Eric Angevine: Women Making Inroads to Professional Baseball 2009
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Even up to WWII, the majority of the industrialized world population was employed in rurally in agriculture and in support services for same.
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This house shares many of the traits of the island in A Moreninha, and is also a sort of in-between place by the sea, rurally idyllic but still located on the outskirts of the city.
Children Playing by the Sea: the Dynamics of Appropriation in the Brazilian Romantic Novel 2006
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