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Rurbanite vs Rurban - What's the difference?

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Rurban is a related term of rurbanite.



As a noun rurbanite

is a person who lives in a rurban area; someone who lives in the country but works in the city.

As an adjective rurban is

of or pertaining to a location which has both urban and rural characteristics.

rurbanite

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who lives in a rurban area; someone who lives in the country but works in the city.
  • * 1950 , Frank Atwood, "Rurbanites", The Hartford Courant , 5 March 1950:
    • If you're a farmer in any Connecticut community the chances are that your next-door neighbor is a "rurbanite ." He lives in the country. He may call his home a "farm," but he gets most of his income selling insurance, or working as a toolmaker in a brass factory, or teaching school or working on the road for the State Highway Department.
  • * 1987 , Flora Lewis, Europe: A Tapestry of Nations , Simon & Schuster (1987), ISBN 9780671440183, page 109:
    • The average citizen is now a "rurbanite ," owning a house on the outskirts of a city in an area where town and countryside have fused into TV-land.
  • * 2009 , Intermediate Natures: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne , Birkhäuser (2009), ISBN 9783764377144, page 63:
    • People who make the choice to live “in the country” are in fact totally cut off from it. These “rurbanites ” usually have to take the car to reach the neighboring woods.

    rurban

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to a location which has both urban and rural characteristics.
  • *1926 , John M. Gillette, "Community Concepts," Social Forces , vol. 4, no. 4, p. 686,
  • *:The rurban community offers greater possibilities of social stratification than does the open country community.
  • *1946', Walter Firey, "Ecological Considerations in Planning for '''Rurban Fringes," ''American Sociological Review , vol. 11, no. 4, p. 413,
  • *:There exists what has come to be called the "rurban fringe," an area occupied by tar paper shacks and stately estates, large commercial farms and one-acre part-time farms, golf courses and cemeteries, airports and obnoxious industries.
  • *2002 , Andre Wink, "From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean: Medieval History in Geographic Perspective," Comparative Studies in Society and History , vol. 44, no. 3, p. 428,
  • *:In the lands of the Indian Ocean ‘agrarian cities’ and ‘rurban ’ settlements of all sizes were the general rule throughout the medieval period.

    • Related terms

    * rurban fringe * rurbanism * rurbanist * rurbanite * rurbanization * rurbanize

    References

    *" rurban" at OneLook® Dictionary Search . *Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.