noun
definition
A person from the countryside; a rustic.
adjective
definition
Relating to the countryside or to agriculture.
Examples of rural in a Sentence
Pop. including a large rural district and several villages (1890), 31,498; (1908, estimate), 33,000.
In 1905 the institute took up the work of rural school extension.
Howie spotted Cummings picking up Jennie Lohr as she hitchhiked to town from her rural Kansas farm.
Until I was ten years old, my family lived in rural east Texas.
The nobles from this time forward retired into the country and the mountains, fortified themselves in strong places outside the cities, and gave their best attention to fostering the rural population.
She had not been reported missing because her mother lay dead in their small rural farm house over a hundred miles away.
One incident was an obvious abduction in rural Delaware that occurred overnight.
Subdivisions may be, and often are, named according to the particular duties to which they are assigned, as la police politique, police des mceurs, police sanitaire, &c. The officers of the judicial police comprise the juge de paix (equivalent to the English police magistrate), the maire, the commissaire de police, the gendarmerie and, in rural districts, the gardes champtres and the gardes forestiers.
The population of the state is largely rural.
This measure, which was endorsed by the third Duma in an act passed on the 21st of December 1908, is calculated to have far-reaching and profound effects upon the rural economy of Russia.
This rural town is home to hikers, kayakers, fishermen and farmers.
The population now made rapid strides as well by ordinary extension as by immigration from the rural districts.
The population of Kentucky is largely rural.
The station is in a rural area with some arable farming in the immediate surrounding area.
He published essays on the way to destroy mendicancy and to improve the condition of the labourers, and also on the establishment of a fund for rural relief and the organization of rural education.
The rural element of the population is large, though it is not increasing as rapidly as the urban; and no other state in the Union is so uniformly settled.
Because of its rural setting, the town is a popular destination for those who enjoy camping, hiking or mountain biking.
Market gardening, the rearing of cattle, for which the district is widely famed, and fishing, form the chief occupations of the rural population.
In the cities and towns horses used as beasts of burden are now shod with iron, but in rural or mountainous, districts straw shoes are substituted, a device which enables the animals to traverse rocky or precipitous roads with safety.
About 74% of the whole constitutes the rural population.
Internal Migration.-In modern times there is constant movement of population within national lines, from section to section, and especially from rural districts to the cities.
The most important phase of internal migration is the movement from the rural districts to the cities.
In France, Colbert, in 1670, ordered the extension to the rural communes of the system which had for many years been in force in Paris of registering and periodically publishing the domestic occurrences of the locality.
The details of deaths in the year preceding the census, for instance, are called for, there being no registration of such occurrences in the rural tracts.
The schedules are distributed by enumerators acting under district supervisors; but it is found impossible to collect the whole number in a single day, nor does the mobility of the population in the rural tracts make such expedition necessary.
In a rural district any parish council may complain to the county council that the district council have made default in keeping any highway in repair, and the county council may thereupon transfer to themselves and execute the powers of the district council at the cost of the latter body, or they may make an order requiring the district council to perform their duty, or they may appoint some person to do so at the cost of the district council.
Of the total population of Austria 14,009,233 were scattered in 26,321 rural communities with less than 2000 inhabitants; while the remainder was distributed in 1742 communities with a population of in 260 communities with a population of 5000-10,00o; in 96 towns with a population of 10,000-20,000; in 41 towns with a population of 20,000-50,000; in 6 towns with a population of 50,000-Ioo,000; and in 6 towns with a population of over 100,000 inhabitants.
But the twofold effect of civil warthe ruin of the farmers and the scarcity and high price of rural laborwas only reduced arbitrarily and, by fits and starts.
The archdeaconry of Lincoln was among those instituted by Remigius, and the division into rural deaneries also dates from this period.
Almost everything connected with bee-craft has been revolutionized, and apiculture, instead of being classed with such homely rural occupations as that of the country housewife who carries a few eggs weekly to the market-town in her basket, is to-day regarded in many countries as a pursuit of considerable import ance.
The tour revolves around Hexham - historic abbey town and heart of Hadrian's Wall Country - and its rural environs.
How can we achieve fidelity to the national model for community services in rural areas?
A common called the Stray, of 200 acres, secured by act of parliament from ever being built upon, stretches in front of the main line of houses, and on this account Harrogate, notwithstanding its rapid increase, has retained much of its rural charm.
The rural population embraces 51% of the whole, the urban population 48%.
Nearly all the French cathedrals of the 12th and 13th centuries exhibit on their portals a species of rural calendar, in which each month and sign has its corresponding labour.
Twitchen Farm - Large self catering accommodation in 16th Century thatched farmhouse set in the rural heartland of North Devon.
In general, coastal development has centered upon the large firths with much of the rest of the coast rural in nature.
If managed on the right scale at a local level they can reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels, and provide rural employment.
These groups will focus directly on rural development and in particular encourage new innovative measures to develop locally generated potential.
La Grande Maison is a family run guesthouse situated in the center of rural Brittany.
The first was to appoint a principal and the second was to relocate to the then leafy and rural Isleworth.
The dash for exports is also threatening rural livelihoods.
They provide the primary means of cover in rural areas.
The metropolitan boro of St Helens is a tightly knit urban area surrounded by rural zones midway between Manchester and Liverpool.
These two summer migrants are most likely to be heard in suburban or rural gardens near woodland.
She has since had another child and her aim to is become a child minder in the rural area where she lives.
Central to this was the creation of a rural Local Delivery pathfinder in each region.
Rural pathfinders set out business plans The plans have been drawn up by eight regional pathfinder partnerships across England.
There also exist barriers that prevent the rural populace from accessing pediatric eye care services.
A village Lodge, the Master was one James Beattie, a rural postman attached to the Forfar Post Office.