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# rural

«rural» in Mova's school dictionary: **to do with the countryside, not towns or cities** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (rural, more rural)

### meaning for a pupil

Rural means to do with the countryside, not towns or cities. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rural/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons rural areas have farms, villages and fewer people; urban areas are towns and cities. In everyday life rural schools may be small. Phrases: rural area, rural life, rural school.

### examples

- We live in a rural area with lots of farms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rural/#x1)
- Rural schools are often small. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rural/#x2)
- Rural buses do not come often. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rural/#x3)
- Many people moved from rural areas to cities. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rural/#x4)
- Rural life can be quiet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rural/#x5)
- The map shows rural and urban areas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rural/#x6)
- When completed, it was a sweet rural bower, roofed overhead with an arch of living boughs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rural/#x7)

### note

Opposite: urban. Say ROOR-ul. Hard to say, so speak slowly.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rural» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rural/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.