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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
rustication is a noun meaning "the condition naturally attaching to life in the country". It carries 5 recorded senses.
the condition naturally attaching to life in the country
the construction of masonry or brickwork in a rustic manner
the action of retiring to and living in the country
temporary dismissal of a student from a university
United Kingdom
banishment into the country
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 rustication come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.