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Rural vs Outlying - What's the difference?

rural | outlying |

As adjectives the difference between rural and outlying

is that rural is pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas while outlying is relatively remote from some central location.

As a noun outlying is

a region relatively remote from a central location.

rural

English

(wikipedia rural)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to less-populated, non-urban areas.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 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 * landly

    Antonyms

    * urban * suburban

    Related terms

    * ruralistic

    See also

    * country ----

    outlying

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relatively remote from some central location.
    • The more outlying villages were never visited by their member of parliament.
  • Located outside of some boundary or limit.
    • When the map was redrawn after the war, our cousin found herself living in outlying territory.

    Related terms

    * outlier

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A region relatively remote from a central location.
  • * 1975 , United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution Control Act of 1972: Effect on Small Communities
    • The other areas and the outlyings will have to come in at a later date, although the council wrestles with that periodically. But the amount of money involved would be substantial.

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