adj.
 in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.
 
  Derivative
  
    - ruralism n.
  - ruralist n.
  - rurality n.
  - ruralization
 or ruralisation n.  - ruralize
 or ruralise v.  - rurally adv.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr., or from late L. ruralis, from rus, rur- ‘country’.