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1. Living in or characteristic of farming or country life
   "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural"
    
2. Of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city
   "rural electrification"; "rural free delivery"

See also: agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, arcadian, bucolic, campestral, countrified, country, country-bred, countryfied, country-style, cracker-barrel [N. Amer], farming, folksy, hobnailed, homespun, pastoral, rurality, rurally, rustic

Antonym: urban

Encyclopedia: Rural