rural area

1. 1.

   an area outside of cities and towns

   “his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country”

   Synonymscountry

   Antonymsurban area

   Broadergeographical area

   Narrowerbackwoodsfarmlandcountrysidescrublandwealdwold

   Partspasture

Questions about rural area

What does rural area mean?

rural area means "an area outside of cities and towns".

What is another word for rural area?

Close synonyms include country. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of rural area?

The recorded antonyms are urban area.

Is rural area a common word?

rural area is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.