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{ "term": "rural", "partOfSpeech": "adjective", "ox3000": true, "cefr": "b2", "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "connected with or like the countryside", "examples": [ { "text": "**rural areas**" }, { "text": "Belarus is predominantly rural." }, { "text": "the rural community/population" }, { "text": "a rural economy" }, { "text": "rural America" }, { "text": "a rural way of life" }, { "text": "a small, quiet, rural village" }, { "text": "a rural development program" }, { "text": "At the end of the 17th century England was still overwhelmingly rural." }, { "text": "Sri Lanka's predominantly rural population" }, { "text": "the ideal of suburban or semi-rural living" }, { "text": "He grew up in a predominantly rural area." }, { "text": "Laramie is a small rural town in Wyoming." } ], "topics": ["Geography", "Buildings"], "collocations": { "verbs": ["be"], "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"] } } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/ˈrʊərəl/", "audio": "ru/rural/rural__gb_4.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/ˈrʊrəl/", "audio": "ru/rural/rural__us_1.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin ruralis, from rus, rur- ‘country’." }