ruritanian

1. 1.

   an imaginary inhabitant of Ruritania

   Broaderfictional character

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to or characteristic of Ruritania (or any other imaginary country)

Other forms of ruritanian

plural

ruritanians·

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.

Questions about ruritanian

What does ruritanian mean?

ruritanian means "an imaginary inhabitant of Ruritania". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ruritanian?

ruritanian has 5 syllables: ru-ri-ta-ni-an. The stress falls on "ni".

Is ruritanian a common word?

ruritanian is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.