At this stage there is still not a clear energy policy for bringing decentralised power to rural areas.
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Rural
//ˈɹʊə.ɹəl//
Synonyms for "rural" (55 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (27)
Related word relations
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Antonyms
4 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
43 entriesShowing 16 of 43 words.
distinct from
2 entriesrelated to
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
similar
25 entriesShowing 16 of 25 words.
Translations
94 translations across 61 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- fshatar adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἄγροικος adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Arabic
2 entries- فَلَّاحِيّ adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- قَرَوِيّ adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Armenian
1 entries- գյուղական adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kənd adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Belarusian
2 entries- вяско́вы adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- се́льскі adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Bengali
4 entries- গাঁইয়া adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- গাঁওয়ালী adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- গেরাইম্মা adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- গ্রাম্য adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Bulgarian
1 entries- се́лски adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Catalan
1 entries- rural adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 農村的 /农村的 adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- 鄉村的 /乡村的 adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Czech
2 entries- selský adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- venkovský adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Danish
4 entries- landlig adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- rural adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- rustik adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- tyndtbefolket adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Dutch
1 entries- landelijk adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Esperanto
1 entries- kampara adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Extremaduran
1 entries- roal adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Finnish
2 entries- maalais adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- maalaismainen adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
French
1 entries- rural adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Galician
1 entries- rural adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Georgian
1 entries- სოფლის adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
German
2 entries- dörflich adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- ländlich adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Greek
1 entries- αγροτικός adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Hebrew
1 entries- כַּפְרִי adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Ido
1 entries- rurala adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Indonesian
1 entries- pedesaan adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Italian
1 entries- rurale adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Japanese
3 entries- いなかの adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- ルーラル adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- 農村 adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Kazakh
2 entries- ауыл adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- ауылдық adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Korean
2 entries- 마을의 adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- 시골의 adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- айыл adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- селолук adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Latin
2 entries- agrestis adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- rūrālis adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kaimiškas adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Macedonian
2 entries- рурален adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- селски adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Malay
1 entries- pedalaman adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Malayalam
1 entries- ഗ്രാമീണ adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Māori
1 entries- taiwhenua adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- landlig adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- rural adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- landleg adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- rural adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Old English
1 entries- uplendisċ adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Persian
1 entries- روستایی adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Polish
3 entries- sielski adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- wiejski adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- wioskowy adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Portuguese
1 entries- rural adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Romanian
3 entries- câmpenesc adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- rural adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- țărănesc adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Russian
2 entries- дереве́нский adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- се́льский adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Scots
1 entries- landward adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- rùrālan adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- sèoskī adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- ру̀ра̄лан adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- сѐоскӣ adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Slovak
1 entries- vidiecky adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Slovene
2 entries- podeželski adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- ruralen adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Spanish
1 entries- rural adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Tagalog
3 entries- kabukiranin adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- pangkabukiran adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- probinsiya adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Tajik
2 entries- деҳотӣ adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
- қишлоқӣ adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Tamil
1 entries- நாட்டுப்புற adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Telugu
1 entries- గ్రామీణ adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Thai
1 entries- ชนบท adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Turkish
1 entries- kırsal adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Turkmen
1 entries- oba adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Ukrainian
1 entries- сільськи́й adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Uzbek
1 entries- qishloq adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nông thôn adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Welsh
1 entries- gwledig adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Yiddish
1 entries- דאָרפֿיש adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Zazaki
1 entries- gemeng adj (pertaining to non-urban areas)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
We spent our holiday exploring rural France.
Source: tatoeba (22799)
Nick looks down on anyone who comes from a rural area.
Source: tatoeba (35973)
It seems the rural area will be developed on a large scale.
Source: tatoeba (45119)
Showing 4 of 12 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.