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Word Meanings - RURALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a rural manner; as in the country.

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  • RURALITY
    1. The quality or state of being rural. 2. A rural place. "Leafy ruralities." Carlyle.
  • COUNTRY-DANCE
    See MACUALAY
  • COUNTRY SEAT
    A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
  • RURALIZE
    To render rural; to give a rural appearance to.
  • RURAL
    1. Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect. Here is a rural fellow; . . . He brings you figs. Shak. 2. Of
  • COUNTRY CLUB
    A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • COUNTRYSIDE
    A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. W. Black. Blackmore.
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • COUNTRY BANK
    A national bank not in a reserve city.
  • COUNTRYMAN
    1. An inhabitant or native of a region. Shak. 2. One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 2 Cor. xi. 26. 3. One who
  • RURALES
    The gossamer-winged butterflies; a family of small butterflies, including the hairstreaks, violets, and theclas.
  • RURALNESS
    The quality or state of being rural.
  • COUNTRYWOMAN
    A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant. Shak.
  • COUNTRY-BASE
    See BASE
  • MANNERLINESS
    The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
  • RURALISM
    1. The quality or state of being rural; ruralness. 2. A rural idiom or expression.
  • MANNERED
    1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
  • RURALLY
    In a rural manner; as in the country.
  • COUNTRY COUSIN
    A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.
  • EQUICRURAL
    Having equal legs or sides; isosceles. "Equicrural triangles." Sir T. Browne.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • BICRURAL
    Having two legs. Hooker.
  • UPCOUNTRY
    In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry.
  • OVERMANNER
    In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
  • ILL-MANNERED
    Impolite; rude.
  • WELL-MANNERED
    Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.

 

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