Crossword-Solution: RURAL 5 letters, 237 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Rural	a.	Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect.
Rural	a.	Of or pertaining to agriculture; as, rural economy.

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Word		Anagrams
RURAL	anagram	URALR

We have 237 clues for the answer “RURAL”

Clue	Answers
"R" in RFD	1 answer
Beyond exurban	1 answer
Beyond suburban	1 answer
Beyond the 'burbs	1 answer
Beyond the exurbs	1 answer
Beyond the suburban.	1 answer
Beyond the suburbs	1 answer
Bucolic and rustic	1 answer
Concerning country life	1 answer
Concerning the country	1 answer
Counterpart of urban	1 answer
Country dweller	1 answer
Cracker-barrel	1 answer
Definitely not urban	1 answer
Describing farmlands	1 answer
Descriptive of exurbia.	1 answer
Far from a city	1 answer
Far from the big city	1 answer
Far from the city	1 answer
Far from urban	1 answer
Farmerish	1 answer
Farmland adjective	1 answer
Filled with farmland	1 answer
Filled with farms	1 answer
Filled with farms, perhaps	1 answer
From beyond the suburbs	1 answer
From farm country	1 answer
From the backwoods	1 answer
From the boondocks	1 answer
Full of dirt roads, say	1 answer
Geoponic	1 answer
Having to do with the countryside rather than the town	1 answer
In the boondocks, e.g.	1 answer
In the sticks	1 answer
Kind of mail route	1 answer
Lacking Verizon coverage, maybe	1 answer
Lacking good cell coverage, perhaps	1 answer
Like "Green Acres"	1 answer
Countryside, not city	1 answer
Like 86% of New York State, contrary to stereotype	1 answer
Like Dogpatch or Mayberry	1 answer
Like Grandma Moses's scenes	1 answer
Like Grant Wood settings	1 answer
Like Mayberry	1 answer
Like Mayberry aunt	1 answer
Like Montana, mostly	1 answer
Like a general store's locale	1 answer
Like a home on the range	1 answer
Like a place with more hogs than humans	1 answer
Like about 97% of U.S. land	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AETER

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with RURAL (5)

Since World War II the impressive growth of the manufacturing, mining, and service sectors has transformed the nation from a largely rural economy into one primarily industrial and urban.

The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

But there is a way some men have, rural and urban alike—for which the mind is more responsible than flesh and sinew—a way of curtailing their dimensions by their manner of showing them; and from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world’s room, Oak walked unassumingly, and with a faintly perceptible bend, quite distinct from a bowing of the shoulders.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

All other scenes of earth—even that village of rural England, where happy infancy and stainless maidenhood seemed yet to be in her mother’s keeping, like garments put off long ago—were foreign to her, in comparison.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992

For example, three are located in urban settings, two in rural settings, and one in a suburban setting.

LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993

Quotes with RURAL (3)

In the heat of the battle, all internal barriers break down; the puppet bourgeoisie of businessmen and shopkeepers, the urban proletariat, which is always in a privileged position, the lumpen-proletariat of the shanty towns - all fall into line with the stand made by the rural masses, that veritable reservoir of a national revolutionary army; for in those countries where colonialism has deliberately held up development, the peasantry, when it rises, quickly stands out as the …

Jean-Paul Sarte

The most insidious of our country, the greediest and highest rung of our socioeconomic ladder, line their pockets with misappropriated funds as military personnel and hordes of civilians are maimed or killed. It’s not their children out there, blinded by manufactured patriotism or lured into the service with the promise of economic stability, all with the sanctimonious blessings of misguided public consent by way of corporate, state-sponsored media. It won’t be their children…

M.B. Dallocchio The Desert Warrior

The desire to experience new kinds of community led a number of thoughtful and idealistic people to reject the patterns of vocation, family life and religion with which they had grown up. Their attempt to establish new patterns of social bonding in uncontaminated rural retreats can be seen as a secular monasticism, but they often discovered that to abolish the boundaries of authority, family and property created a whole series of problems which they did not have the spiritual…

Ian Breward Australia: "The Most Godless Place Under Heaven'?

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 431 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).