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say it: RUUR-uhl
rural is an adjective meaning "living in or characteristic of farming or country life". It is pronounced /ˈɹʊɹəl/ — RUUR-uhl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
living in or characteristic of farming or country life
“rural people”
“large rural households”
“unpaved rural roads”
“an economy that is basically rural”
of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city
“rural electrification”
“rural free delivery”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rural come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.