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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’."
}