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Turban vs Rurban - What's the difference?

turban | rurban |

As a noun turban

is turban.

As an adjective rurban is

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

turban

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Man's headdress made by winding a length of cloth round the head.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
  • Woman's close-fitting hat with little or no brim.
  • The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell.

    • See also

    * puggry, puggree

    External links

    * ("turban" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

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    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.