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RURALIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ruralist mean?
• RURALIST (noun)
The noun RURALIST has 2 senses:
1. an advocate of rural living
2. a man who lives in the country and has country ways
Familiarity information: RURALIST used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An advocate of rural living
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("ruralist" is a kind of...):
advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A man who lives in the country and has country ways
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
countryman; ruralist
Hypernyms ("ruralist" is a kind of...):
rustic (an unsophisticated country person)
Instance hyponyms:
Philemon ((Greek mythology) a simple countryman who offered hospitality to Zeus and Hermes when they came to earth without revealing their identities in order to test people's piety)
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