Rustic vs Woodland - What's the difference?
rustic | woodland |
Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
* (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
Unfinished or roughly finished.
Crude, rough.
Simple; artless; unaffected.
* (Alexander Pope)
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.}}
Our rustic dance wi' scorn. * 1818 — (Mary Shelley), Ch. I *: With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection. * 1820 — (Washington Irving), *: To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature. A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
* 1906 — (Arthur Conan Doyle), , Ch IX
* 1927-29' — (Mahatma Gandhi), '', Part V, The Stain of Indigo'', translated ' 1940 by (Mahadev Desai)
Land covered with woody vegetation.
* Alexander Pope
* Bancroft
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 Of or pertaining to a creature or object growing, living, or existing in a woodland.
* 1837 , “Picus''”, in Charles Frederick Partington (editor), ''The British Cyclopædia of Natural History , Volume 3, W. S. Orr & Co.,
* 1839 , , The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Part II: Incessories'', part of ''The Naturalist's Library , W.H. Lizars,
* 1890 July, , “My Islands”, in Longman's Magazine , Volume 16, Number 93,
* 1894 , R. Bowdler Sharpe, A Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain , Volume I, W. H. Allen & Co., Limited,
(obsolete) Having the character of a .
* {{quote-news, year=1827, author="Amateur", title=Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, and Bedfordshire Hunting, work=Sporting Magazine, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=yr4CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA64, page=64
, passage=It is a very woodland country, with plenty of grass, but it is too large for four days a-week, and the sport is generally rather indifferent.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1835, author=, title=Nimrod's Hunting Tours, page=109, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=p-wIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA109
, passage=
* {{quote-book, year=1871, author=George Gill, title=Fourth Reader
, passage=Shortly after leaving Swindon the main line enters Wiltshire, and runs through an extremely woodland district to Chippenham
As adjectives the difference between rustic and woodland
is that rustic is country-styled or pastoral; rural while woodland is of or pertaining to a creature or object growing, living, or existing in a woodland.As nouns the difference between rustic and woodland
is that rustic is a (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area while woodland is land covered with woody vegetation.rustic
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete) rustick, rusticke, rustiqueAdjective
(en adjective)- She had a rustic , woodland air.
Derived terms
* rustic moth * rustic workQuotations
{{timeline, 1700s=17??, 1800s=1818 1820}} * late 1700s — (Robert Burns), *: The Princely revel may surveyOur rustic dance wi' scorn. * 1818 — (Mary Shelley), Ch. I *: With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection. * 1820 — (Washington Irving), *: To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.
Noun
(en noun)- The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.
- Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics .
Anagrams
* * *woodland
English
(wikipedia woodland)Noun
(en noun)- Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, / Here earth and water seem to strive again.
- Woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended.
citation, passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands .}}
Synonyms
* timberland * forestAdjective
(en adjective)- The woodland creatures ran from the fire.
page 446:
- This species [
is a very little larger than the red-headed one; and it is more woodland in its manners; seldom appearing in orchards or near houses, but keeping to the tall trees in the close forests.
page 125–6:
- The genera Philomela'' and ''Curruca , as we previously observed, are very closely allied to each other, both are woodland in their habits, and both possess great melody of song.
page 341:
- It was a couple of hundred years or so more before I saw a third bullfinch — which didn't surprise me, for bullfinches are very woodland birds, and non-migratory into the bargain — so that they didn’t often get blown seaward over the broad Atlantic.
page 91:
- As its name implies, this species [
is a more woodland bird than the other British Larks, and in many of its ways of life it resembles the Tree Pipit, frequenting the neighborhood of woods and plantations, but always affecting trees.
citation
