{
    "term": "rural",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "connected with or like the countryside",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**rural areas**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Belarus is predominantly rural."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the rural community/population"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a rural economy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "rural America"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a rural way of life"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a small, quiet, rural village"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a rural development program"
                },
                {
                    "text": "At the end of the 17th century England was still overwhelmingly rural."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sri Lanka's predominantly rural population"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the ideal of suburban or semi-rural living"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He grew up in a predominantly rural area."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Laramie is a small rural town in Wyoming."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Geography", "Buildings"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈrʊərəl/",
                "audio": "ru/rural/rural__gb_4.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈrʊrəl/",
                "audio": "ru/rural/rural__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin ruralis, from rus, rur- ‘country’."
}