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These are young fathers, rural farmers, usually growing banana or coffee or subsistence crops.

For the first time in American history, rural America has been losing population.

She is also head of the Sabancı Foundation, which conducts female-empowerment programs for women in rural Turkey.

Rural churches were deserted, and the connection between the land and the bounty of harvests was gone.

“In almost all rural areas of Switzerland, it is customary to eat cats and dogs,” she says.

There are many more good dwellings on this plain than in the rural portion of Lower Italy.

The hospitals in the capital were crowded with wounded soldiers, brought in at great risk from the rural districts.

Here again we have the landscape of Lorraine and the eternal and infinitely varied theme of rural labour.

This rule however does not apply to travelers walking along a rural highway.

Then it is sung softly like the farmhand quartettes do in the rural melodrama outside the old homestead in harvest time.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rural, such as: agrarian, agricultural, back country, backwoods, bucolic, and idyllic.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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