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From Old French rural, from Latin rūrālis (“rural”), from rūs (“countryside”) + -ālis.

rural (comparative more rural, superlative most rural)

  1. Relating to the countryside or to agriculture.
    Synonyms: campestral, landly (nonstandard)
    Antonyms: urban, suburban
    • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎[1]:
      Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins … .
    • 2024 November 21, Helen Regan, Isaac Yee and Eve Brennan, “Australian teens among six tourists dead as countries warn of suspected methanol poisonings in Laos”, in CNN‎[2]:
      The Australian teens, both from Melbourne, were enjoying a backpacking trip when they became ill after a night out in Vang Vieng.
      The picturesque rural town in northern Laos has long been a popular backpacking spot.

pertaining to non-urban areas

rural (plural rurals)

  1. (obsolete) A person from the countryside; a rustic.

Borrowed from Latin rūrālis.

rural (epicene, plural rurales)

  1. rural
    Antonym: urbanu

Borrowed from Latin rūrālis.

rural m or f (masculine and feminine plural rurals)

  1. rural
    Antonym: urbà

Inherited from Old French rural, a borrowing from Latin rūrālis (“rural”), from rūs (“countryside”) + -ālis.

rural (feminine rurale, masculine plural ruraux, feminine plural rurales)

  1. rural
    Synonym: champêtre
    Antonym: urbain

From Latin rūrālis.

rural m or f (plural rurais)

  1. rural
    Antonym: urbano

rural (strong nominative masculine singular ruraler, comparative ruraler, superlative am ruralsten)

  1. (dated, learned) rural
    Synonym: ländlich

Comparative forms of rural

Superlative forms of rural

From Latin ruralis.

rural (neuter singular ruralt, definite singular and plural rurale)

  1. rural

From Latin ruralis.

rural (neuter singular ruralt, definite singular and plural rurale)

  1. rural

From Latin rūrālis (“rural”), from rūs (“countryside”) + -ālis.

rural m (oblique and nominative feminine singular rurale)

  1. rural

rural

  1. rural

From Latin rūrālis (“rural”), from rūs (“countryside”) + -ālis.

rural m or f (plural rurais)

  1. rural

Borrowed from French rural.

rural m or n (feminine singular rurală, masculine plural rurali, feminine/neuter plural rurale)

  1. rural

From Latin rūrālis (“rural”), from rūs (“countryside”) + -ālis.

rural m or f (masculine and feminine plural rurales)

  1. rural
    Antonym: urbano
    • 2015 September 17, Teresa Sánchez Ravina, “Senegal se pone las pilas con la planificación familiar”, in El País‎[3], archived from the original on 23 March 2018:
      Un ejemplo claro se ve en la tasa de prevalencia anticonceptiva, que en 2014 era del 20% en las zonas urbanas y del 7% en las zonas rurales.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

rural f (in Uruguay) m or f (in Argentina) (plural rurales)

  1. (Rioplatense) station wagon (US, Australia); estate car (UK)
    Synonyms: familiar, (Colombia, Venezuela) camioneta, (Mexico) guayín, (Spain) ranchera, (Spain) rubia, (Chile, Peru, Puerto Rico) station wagon, (Bolivia, Mexico) vagoneta