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 Ru·ral a.
 1. Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect.
 Here is a rural fellow; . . .
 He brings you figs.   --Shak.
 2. Of or pertaining to agriculture; as, rural economy.
 Rural dean. Eccl. See under Dean.
 Rural deanery Eccl., the state, office, or residence, of a rural dean.
 Syn: -- Rustic.
 Usage: -- Rural, Rustic. Rural refers to the country itself; as, rural scenes, prospects, delights, etc. Rustic refers to the character, condition, taste, etc., of the original inhabitants of the country, who were generally uncultivated and rude; as, rustic manners; a rustic dress; a rustic bridge; rustic architecture, etc.
 We turn
 To where the silver Thames first rural grows.   --Thomson.
 Lay bashfulness, that rustic virtue, by;
 To manly confidence thy throughts apply.   --Dryden.
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