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noun
Advocacy of rural life instead of urbanism or city living.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Rural living.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The state or quality of being rustic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A rural idiom or expression.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
a rural characteristic or trait
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: rurality
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Broader terms: trait, characteristic
noun
a rural idiom or expression
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: rusticism
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Broader terms: idiom, idiomatic expression, phrasal idiom, set phrase, phrase
History
From rural + -ism.
