Concept cluster: Social systems > Rural living
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Agricultural or rural.
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(rare) A member of the Amish.
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That inhabits meadows; rural
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The domain or sphere of autistic people; a notional place representing autism.
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(informal, UK politics) A Peer who is seldom present in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom Parliament, who may be encouraged to attend when a very important vote is expected.
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(Spanish America) A municipality or subdivision of a municipality.
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(urban studies) An urban community that is primarily residential, from which most of the workforce commutes out to earn their livelihood; often a suburb of a nearby metropolis that workers travel to daily.
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Relating to the pleasant aspects of rustic country life.
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Obsolete form of borough. [(obsolete) A fortified town.]
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(derogatory, now rare) Clipping of citizen: a citizen; a city dweller, a townsman. [A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally-recognized rights or duties.]
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(slang) A large amount of something (used after the noun).
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A male inhabitant of a city, or one who prefers city life
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A person living in a city.
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(colloquial) One accustomed to a city or urban lifestyle or unsuited to life in the country.
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Alternative spelling of city dweller. [A person living in a city.]
adj
Alternative spelling of citified. [Characteristic of the sophisticated customs or dress associated with city life.]
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Resembling or characteristic of a city; urban.
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Alternative spelling of civvy. [(informal) A civilian; someone who is not in the military.]
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(informal) A civilian; someone who is not in the military.
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A town or city that is dominated by its university population.
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A group of people with similar interests, occupations, or characteristics, living in a particular area; the area such people occupy.
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A dining hall, usually at a college or university.
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Higher-density development in which a variety of land uses are located such that residents and workers are within walking distance of many destinations.
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(idiomatic) A town, city, or other municipality in which a single large business has a controlling influence over the economy and, sometimes, over the societal structure and local government.
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Archaic spelling of country. [(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.]
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Obsolete spelling of country [(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.]
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An aesthetic that celebrates a return to traditional skills and crafts associated with rural living, such as sewing, gardening, foraging, baking, and pottery.
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Pronunciation spelling of country. [(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.]
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(Early Modern) Country.
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(archaic, poetic) Alternative form of country, used when poetic meter demands a stress on the final syllable. [(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.]
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Archaic spelling of country. [(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.]
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Obsolete spelling of country [(chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.]
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(transitive) To make rural or rustic.
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A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, speakers of the same language etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.
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Alternative spelling of countryside [An area located outside of towns and cities; an area that is not urban or suburban; a rural area.]
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Alternative spelling of countryside [An area located outside of towns and cities; an area that is not urban or suburban; a rural area.]
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One who lives in the country; a rural dweller.
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Alternative spelling of countrify [(transitive) To make rural or rustic.]
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Rurality: the property of being in or from the country.
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Resembling or characteristic of the country; rural.
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Somebody from one's own country; a fellow countryman; compatriot.
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One who comes from the same country.
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Someone from a particular country (nation)
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(dated) nationality
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An area located outside of towns and cities; an area that is not urban or suburban; a rural area.
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One who lives in the countryside.
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(historical) The land ruled by a count or a countess.
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A person from the same village.
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(US) Folksy; characteristic of simple small-town people.
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Alternative form of crownland [(historical) In Austria-Hungary, any of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy.]
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Obsolete spelling of city [A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.]
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A city whose centre has deteriorated or declined as a result of rapid growth of the surrounding suburbs.
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Someone from downtown
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Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the field; belonging to the country; rural.
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Knowledge or skill gained in the fields; knowledge of rural pursuits.
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Characteristic of simple country life.
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(Australia) An Aboriginal person living on the outskirts of a town or other settlement.
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(UK, urban studies) Any of several planned, self-contained communities, surrounded by "green belts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and agriculture.
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(slang) A person from the suburbs who moves to a low-income urban area.
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An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
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(UK, slang) A person living in a university town who has some academic connection with the university.
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The traditional territory of an ethnic group.
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Characteristic of a hometown; having or giving a hometown feel
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A person who attends visitors in a religious institution.
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A communal housing structure built as part of an architectural and social movement in the Soviet Union in the 1920–1930s.
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(Singapore) A district or suburb where a former kampung stood.
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(figuratively) A utopian setting, such as a small town; a perfect place to live.
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A person who likes cities.
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A person who dislikes cities.
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A residential complex in a current or former communist country.
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An inhabitant of a midtown area.
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A small, mostly self-contained community, built from the late 18th century onwards by landowners and business magnates to house workers.
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A planned community or urban development area.
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(dated) A locality in which a group of nudists live temporarily or permanently separated from the rest of the community
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The historic district of a city or town.
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Having the qualities of an out-of-towner.
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One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere.
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(chiefly in the plural) The general area surrounding a place, environs.
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A private, generally gated, community of regulated and genteel appearance.
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Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
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(obsolete) the place where a recluse dwells; a place of isolation or seclusion
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Someone who travels to a more urban area in the evening and from it in the morning.
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Advocacy of rural life instead of urbanism or city living.
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One who exhibits characteristics or qualities of rural life, or ruralism.
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A person who lives in the country.
adv
In a rural place; in the countryside
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An urbanite who moves to the countryside, especially to start an agricultural venture.
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(rare, obsolete) A country dweller.
adj
Of or pertaining to a rural dean.
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A poor municipality on the outskirts of a city, often the result of gentrification driving the urban poor to move far from the city center.
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Pertaining to a small town; provincial.
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(US) An inhabitant of a small town.
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(US, derogatory) Suited to, or typical of, a small town or its inhabitants (suggesting lack of knowledge of the wider world).
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(US, derogatory) Small-townish attitudes.
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Alternative form of small-town [Pertaining to a small town; provincial.]
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(dialectal, Lake District) A man who lives on a landed estate; a small landholder.
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(slang) A residential area, for instance in a college town, that predominantly consists of rental housing for post-secondary students.
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Someone who has a very long commute, often to a different metropolitan area than the one they reside in.
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(humorous) A person who has moved away from Texas.
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(England, traditional, in phrases such as 'in Town' or 'to Town', also without capital) London, especially central London.
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A person who lives in a town.
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Someone who works in town planning
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Alternative form of town and gown [(chiefly UK, idiomatic, sometimes capitalized) On the one hand, the members of the city, borough, or similar community near a university and, on the other hand, the students and faculty of the university itself, especially when understood as rivals in a state of tension or conflict.]
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Alternative spelling of town dweller. [A person who lives in a town.]
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Alternative spelling of town dweller. [A person who lives in a town.]
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(obsolete) Having towns; containing many towns.
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Alternative form of townie [(UK, US) A person living in a university area who is not associated with the university.]
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(only used in combinations) A person from a certain town, or part of town
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Synonym of townsfolk
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(UK, US) A person living in a university area who is not associated with the university.
adj
(obsolete) Pertaining to or inhabiting a town, urban.
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A small town
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Resembling or characteristic of a town.
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An inhabitant of a town.
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(rare) Characteristic of a town or its inhabitants.
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A town-dweller; townsman
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The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people.
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A townsman.
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The people who live in a town, especially the lower and middle classes.
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A man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.
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A person with which one shares a town.
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An inhabitant of a town.
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A woman who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.
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Characteristic of a town.
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A person from upstate; usually specifically a person from upstate New York.
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An original homeland, territory, or habitat.
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A condition of hyperdensity, limited but enabling scale of communicative possibilities that converge opportunistically. It occurs when the pressure of an urban environment reaches a critical threshold in cities of developing countries.
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(law) Abbreviation of village. [A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.]
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(plural "villas") A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
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(Britain) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
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The people and culture of a village.
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Resembling a village or some aspect of a village.
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One who comes from the same village.
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Relating to or characteristic of a village.
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A person who lives in, or comes from, a village.
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(obsolete) A district of villages.
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A little village.
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(informal) Villagelike.
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(obsolete) Of or pertaining to a farm or village; rural.
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country retirement; staying at a place in the country
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Of, belonging to, or restricted to a limited area or neighborhood; local.
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(informal) A substitute placename for an inhabited place, a city or town, with an unknown or unspecified name.
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Alternative letter-case form of YIMBY [Someone who endorses development (especially the construction of more housing) near them.]

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