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rural

adj
/ˈɹʊə.ɹəl/UK/ˈɹʊɹ.əl/US/ˈɹʉːɹəl/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from rūrālis
  2. derived from rural

Definitions

  1. Relating to the countryside or to agriculture.

    • 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 … .
    • 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.

  2. A person from the countryside

    A person from the countryside; a rustic.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at rural. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at rural. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at rural

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA