different between rurbanite vs rurban

English

Etymology

rurban +? -ite

Noun

rurbanite (plural rurbanites)

1. A person who lives in a rurban area; someone who lives in the country but works in the city.
   • 1950, Frank Atwood, "Rurbanites", The Hartford Courant, 5 March 1950:

     If you're a farmer in any Connecticut community the chances are that your next-door neighbor is a "rurbanite." He lives in the country. He may call his home a "farm," but he gets most of his income selling insurance, or working as a toolmaker in a brass factory, or teaching school or working on the road for the State Highway Department.

   • 1987, Flora Lewis, Europe: A Tapestry of Nations, Simon & Schuster (1987), ?ISBN, page 109:

     The average citizen is now a "rurbanite," owning a house on the outskirts of a city in an area where town and countryside have fused into TV-land.

   • 2009, Intermediate Natures: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne, Birkhäuser (2009), ?ISBN, page 63:

     People who make the choice to live “in the country” are in fact totally cut off from it. These “rurbanites” usually have to take the car to reach the neighboring woods.

English

Etymology

Blend of rural +? urban, early 20th c.

Adjective

rurban (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a location which has both urban and rural characteristics.
   • 1915, Charles J. Galpin, Rural Life. New York: The Century Company.
   • 1926, John M. Gillette, "Community Concepts," Social Forces, vol. 4, no. 4, p. 686,

     The rurban community offers greater possibilities of social stratification than does the open country community.

   • 1946, Walter Firey, "Ecological Considerations in Planning for Rurban Fringes," American Sociological Review, vol. 11, no. 4, p. 413,

     There exists what has come to be called the "rurban fringe," an area occupied by tar paper shacks and stately estates, large commercial farms and one-acre part-time farms, golf courses and cemeteries, airports and obnoxious industries.

   • 2002, Andre Wink, "From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean: Medieval History in Geographic Perspective," Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 44, no. 3, p. 428,

     In the lands of the Indian Ocean ‘agrarian cities’ and ‘rurban’ settlements of all sizes were the general rule throughout the medieval period.

Derived terms

• rurban fringe
• rurbanism
• rurbanist
• rurbanite
• rurbanization
• rurbanize

Translations

References

• rurban at OneLook Dictionary Search
• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “rurban”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Raburn