Rural vs City - What's the difference?
rural | city |
Pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 A large settlement, bigger than a town.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city'; the ' city of one's dreams.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (lb) The central business district; downtown.
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As an adjective rural
is pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas.As a noun city is
a large settlement, bigger than a town.As a proper noun City is
a popular shortened form of the City of London, the historic core of London where the Roman settlement of Londinium was established.rural
English
(wikipedia rural)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins … .}}
Synonyms
* campestral * landlyAntonyms
* urban * suburbanSee also
* country ----city
English
(wikipedia city)Alternative forms
* cyteNoun
(cities)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city ’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}