rural

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the country.

Of or relating to people who live in the country.

Of or relating to farming; agricultural.

Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; belonging to or characteristic of the country.

Pertaining to agriculture or farming: as, rural economy.

Living in the country; rustic.

Synonyms Rural, Rustic, Pastoral, Bucolic. Rural is always used in a good sense, and is applied chiefly to things: as, rural pleasures; rural scenery. Rustic is used in a good sense, but also has a sense implying a lack of the refinements of the town or city: as, rustic gallantry. Pastoral means belonging to a shepherd or his kind of life; bucolic, belonging to the care of cattle or to that kind of life. Pastoral is always used in a good sense; bucolic is now often used with a shade of contempt.

[Cowper applies rural to persons as well as things.]

A countryman; a rustic.

Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic.