how to pronounce rural

/ˈɹʊə.ɹəl/

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rural is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of rural in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… a rural town in Australia and yet a …”

meaning of rural

Rural means a place that is not urban.

rural frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word rural occurs in english on average 62.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics rural can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that rural can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;