different between regional vs rural

English

Etymology

From Middle French régional, from Latin regi?n?lis.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?j??n?l, r?j?n?l, IPA^(key): /??i?d??n?l/, /??i?d?n?l/

Adjective

regional (not comparable)

1. Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.
2. Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region.
3. Of, or pertaining to, one part of the body.
4. (Australia) Of a state or other geographic area, those parts which are not metropolitan, but are somewhat densely populated and usually contain a number of significant towns.
   • 1988, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book Australia, Issue 71, page 94,

     The new Remoteness Structure covers the whole of Australia and classifies Australia into regions which share common characteristics of remoteness. There are six Remoteness Areas in the Structure: Major Cities of Australia, Inner Regional Australia, Outer Regional Australia, Remote Australia, Very Remote Australia and Migratory.

     An estimated two-thirds (66.3%) of the total population resided in Major Cities as at 30 June 2001. The rest were mainly residents of Inner and Outer Regional areas (31.1%) with only 2.6% of people in Remote or Very Remote areas.

   • 2005, Joy McCann, Chapter 3: History and Memory in Australia?s Wheatlands, Graeme Davison, Marc Brodie (editors), Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth-Century Australia, page 03-1,

     The wheatlands region stretching across Australia offers a graphic illustration of the processes of social and economic change in rural and regional Australia.

   • 2011, Lee Mylne, Marc Llewellyn, Ron Crittall, Lee Atkinson, Frommer?s Australia 2011, unnumbered page,

     HEMA produces four-wheel-drive and motorbike road atlases and many regional four-wheel-drive maps—good if you plan to go off the trails—an atlas of Australia?s national parks, and maps to Kakadu and Lamington national parks.

Translations

Noun

regional (plural regionals)

1. An entity or event with scope limited to a single region.
   • 1985 March 11, James Connolly, CPE big item on regionals? omnivorous market menu, Computerworld, page 125,

     In the CPE^{[Customer Premises Equipment]} market, all seven regionals are selling several sizes of private branch exchanges (PBX) and key systems for smaller customers.

   • 2001, Harold L. Vogel, Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis, page 44,

     Regionals are among the fastest growing companies and, as the name implies, are those carriers that for the most part provide service to only one region of the country and generate revenue of under $100 million.

   • 2006, Franklynn Peterson, Judi Kesselman-Turkel, The Magazine Writer?s Handbook, page 12,

     Regional magazines are general interest publications for readers who live in a particular area of the country. Most major cities have their own regionals: New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Miami ...

Anagrams

• Loegrian, geraniol

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regi?n?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /r?.?i.o?nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /r?.?i.u?nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re.d??i.o?nal/

Adjective

regional (masculine and feminine plural regionals)

1. regional

Derived terms

• regionalisme
• regionalista

Related terms

• regió

Further reading

• “regional” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “regional” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “regional” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “regional” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

regional

1. regional

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regi?n?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?i?o?na?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

regional (not comparable)

1. regional

Declension

Related terms

• Region

Further reading

• “regional” in Duden online

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch regionaal, from French régional, from Latin regionalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [re?i?onal]
• Hyphenation: ré?gi?o?nal

Adjective

regional

1. regional

   Synonym: kedaerahan

Related terms

Further reading

• “regional” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French régional and English regional, from Latin regionalis

Adjective

regional (masculine and feminine regional, neuter regionalt, definite singular and plural regionale)

1. regional

References

• “regional” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “regional” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French régional and English regional, from Latin regionalis

Adjective

regional (masculine and feminine regional, neuter regionalt, definite singular and plural regionale)

1. regional

References

• “regional” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• regionau (Gascon, Provençal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regi?n?lis.

Adjective

regional m (feminine singular regionala, masculine plural regionals, feminine plural regionalas)

1. regional

Related terms

• region

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regi?n?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?e.?jo.?naw/

Adjective

regional m or f (plural regionais, comparable)

1. regional (pertaining or limited to a specific region)

Derived terms

• regionalismo
• regionalmente

Related terms

• região

Further reading

• “regional” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French régional

Adjective

regional m or n (feminine singular regional?, masculine plural regionali, feminine and neuter plural regionale)

1. regional

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regi?n?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rexjo?nal/, [re.xjo?nal]

Adjective

regional (plural regionales)

1. regional

Derived terms

• regionalismo
• regionalizar
• regionalmente

Related terms

• región

Further reading

• “regional” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

region +? -al

Adjective

regional (not comparable)

1. regional; pertaining to a region or regions

Declension

Related terms

• regionalpolitik

Anagrams

• logierna

English

Etymology

From Old French rural, from Latin r?r?lis (“rural”), from r?s (“countryside”) + -?lis.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?????l/, /????l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??????l/, /??????l/
• Hyphenation: ru?ral

Adjective

rural (comparative more rural, superlative most rural)

1. Relating to the countryside or to agriculture.

   Antonyms: urban, suburban

Synonyms

• campestral
• landly (nonstandard)

Derived terms

Related terms

• perirural
• ruralistic

Translations

Noun

rural (plural rurals)

1. (obsolete) A person from the countryside; a rustic.

See also

• country

Anagrams

• urlar

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin r?r?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ru??al/

Adjective

rural (masculine and feminine plural rurals)

1. rural

   Antonym: urbà

Further reading

• “rural” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rural” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “rural” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rural” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Old French rural, a borrowing from Latin r?r?lis (“rural”), from r?s (“countryside”) + -?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?y.?al/

Adjective

rural (feminine singular rurale, masculine plural ruraux, feminine plural rurales)

1. rural

   Synonym: champêtre

   Antonym: urbain

Related terms

• rustique
• rustre

Further reading

• “rural” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

From Latin r?r?lis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

rural m or f (plural rurais)

1. rural

   Antonym: urbano

Further reading

• “rural” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u??a?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

rural (comparative ruraler, superlative am ruralsten)

1. (dated, learned) rural

Declension

Synonyms

• ländlich

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin ruralis.

Adjective

rural (neuter singular ruralt, definite singular and plural rurale)

1. rural

Synonyms

• landlig

References

• “rural” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin ruralis

Adjective

rural (neuter singular ruralt, definite singular and plural rurale)

1. rural

Synonyms

• landleg

References

• “rural” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin r?r?lis (“rural”), from r?s (“countryside”) + -?lis.

Adjective

rural m (oblique and nominative feminine singular rurale)

1. rural

Descendants

• ? English: rural
• French: rural

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ry?ral/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

rural

1. rural

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin r?r?lis (“rural”), from r?s (“countryside”) + -?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?u.??aw/
• Hyphenation: ru?ral

Adjective

rural m or f (plural rurais, comparable)

1. rural

Romanian

Etymology

From French rural

Adjective

rural m or n (feminine singular rural?, masculine plural rurali, feminine and neuter plural rurale)

1. rural

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin r?r?lis (“rural”), from r?s (“countryside”) + -?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ru??al/, [ru??al]
• Hyphenation: ru?ral
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

rural (plural rurales)

1. rural

   Antonym: urbano

Derived terms

Further reading

• “rural” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.