Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having both rural and urban characteristics.
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- adjective Moderately
rural ; transcending bothurbanity andprovince ; developing
Etymologies
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Examples
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It would allow birds on any property in a yet-to-be-defined agricultural area, even if there's a house on it, or on any property two acres or larger in other semirural areas.
Prince William County considers allowing residents to raise fowl in rural areas Jennifer Buske 2010
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Baxter's semirural, Rust Belt Yoknapatawpha - where many of these stories take place.
'Gryphon: New and Selected Stories,' by Charles Baxter: Short but potent 2011
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Baxter's semirural, Rust Belt Yoknapatawpha - where many of these stories take place.
'Gryphon: New and Selected Stories,' by Charles Baxter: Short but potent 2011
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Mr. Romney drew first when his campaign had Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, a semirural stretch of Arizona, record automated calls to Iowa voters last month calling Mr. Perry "part of the illegal-immigration problem."
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Most of the stories Carver published before 1971 were domestic or semirural and traditionally realistic.
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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It has sent a shudder of anxiety through a string of semirural communities about 25 minutes outside San Antonio.
Small Town Finds Itself Upended by a Public-Health Crisis 2009
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As in other semirural states -- Missouri and North Carolina come to mind -- Colorado Democrats tend to be conservative Democrats.
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Most voters in the racially mixed, semirural constituency of Permatang Pauh, where Malays make up about 70% of the electorate, weren't moved by the government's effort to cast Mr. Anwar as someone who would betray Malay interests to pander to Malaysia's minorities.
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When Frank Lloyd Wright dreamed up Broadacre City-his utopian idea for semirural metropolises -- he declared the architecture of each should grow out of the character of its region.
A SENSE OF PLACE 2008
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Delight runs a gambling club and discreet parlor house—i.e., a bordello—known as the Dancing Knave on semirural Rivington Street.
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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